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What is this endpoint?

geoserver/web/

GeoServer

What an attacker could do

The GeoServer web admin console allows configuring data stores and the WPS/OGC services, so reaching it enables exploitation of evaluation-expression RCE (CVE-2024-36401) or credential brute force to seize the server.

How to defend it

Block /geoserver/web/ from public access via firewall or reverse-proxy ACLs, enforce strong non-default admin credentials, and keep GeoServer and its GeoTools/commons-jxpath dependencies patched.

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