CVE-2026-46487
Received
Received - Intake
Information Disclosure in GeoNetwork via Elasticsearch Proxy
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-46487, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-03
Last updated on: 2026-11-03
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
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.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| geonetwork | core-geonetwork | >= 4.0.0-alpha.1, <= 4.0.6-0 |
| geonetwork | core-geonetwork | >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.16 |
| geonetwork | core-geonetwork | >= 4.4.0, < 4.4.11 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-862 | The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. |
