GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. From 4.0.0-alpha.1 until 4.2.16 and 4.4.11, the Elasticsearch-backed search proxy can skip GeoNetwork's access-control filter injection when a client request has an omitted query field. The request is then forwarded to Elasticsearch without group visibility, draft exclusion, record ownership, or portal-specific filtering. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use the affected public search API to retrieve the full indexed contents of metadata records that should not be publicly visible. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.16 and 4.4.11.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-582q-v28r-7cxr GeoNetwork has ACL bypass on Elasticsearch search when request body omits query field
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Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:00:00 +0000

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Description GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. From 4.0.0-alpha.1 until 4.2.16 and 4.4.11, the Elasticsearch-backed search proxy can skip GeoNetwork's access-control filter injection when a client request has an omitted query field. The request is then forwarded to Elasticsearch without group visibility, draft exclusion, record ownership, or portal-specific filtering. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use the affected public search API to retrieve the full indexed contents of metadata records that should not be publicly visible. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.16 and 4.4.11.
Title GeoNetwork: ACL bypass on Elasticsearch search when request body omits query field
Weaknesses CWE-862
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-03T18:44:42.516Z

Reserved: 2026-05-14T18:06:06.811Z

Link: CVE-2026-46487

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-03T19:18:05.933

Modified: 2026-11-03T19:18:05.933

Link: CVE-2026-46487

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Updated: 2026-11-03T21:15:03Z

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