GeoTools up to 27.3/28.1 OGC sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in GeoTools up to 27.3/28.1. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component OGC Handler. The manipulation results in sql injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-25158. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GeoTools up to 27.3/28.1. Affected is some unknown processing of the component OGC Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. GeoTools includes support for OGC Filter expression language parsing, encoding and execution against a range of datastore. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities have been found when executing OGC Filters with JDBCDataStore implementations. Users are advised to upgrade to either version 27.4 or to 28.2 to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may disable `encode functions` for PostGIS DataStores or enable `prepared statements` for JDBCDataStores as a partial mitigation.

The weakness was presented 02/22/2023 as GHSA-99c3-qc2q-p94m. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-25158 since 02/03/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 27.4 or 28.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 64fb4c47f43ca818c2fe96a94651bff1b3b3ed2b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• GeoTools

Version

• 27.0
• 27.1
• 27.2
• 27.3
• 28.0
• 28.1

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/geotools/geotools/

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