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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Advisories
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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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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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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-11-03T21:15:03Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA