The difficulty is if someone else has disclosed publicly eh?

I wrote down some stuff here from GSIP-220 which we can revise over time:
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/security.html

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Jody Garnett


On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:16 PM Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think if we have disclosed the CVE then all further discussion should be
> in public, rather than on the security list.
>
> Ian
>
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 19:20, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So Ian what is the right thing to do here?
>>
>> Should I not of replied to this message - to limit discussion of security
>> vulnerabilities (reproducing and verification and so on) to the
>> geoserver-security list?
>>
>> It is a little confusing with your message about not contacting
>> geoserver-security volunteers for announced vulnerabilities. In this case
>> the vulnerability is announced - just not by us!  And I agree that the
>> report does not make much sense / poorly written / was not shared with team
>> until now....
>>
>> In anycase the geoserver-security list is looking  at this CVE now and
>> will either:
>>
>> a) dispute it - if it cannot be reproduced (we have done this in the past
>> and it did not work)
>> b) confirm it - by issuing a change / clarification to
>> https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-382v-j99g-hw2p (only thing we can do
>> as we did not publish the original)
>>
>> Reference:
>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-220#publicly-reported-issue
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2024 at 9:55:48 AM, Mark Prins <mc.pr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 01-07-2024 16:43, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not sure we have been notified about that vulnerability, searching
>>>
>>> my email this you are the first.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just because someone has opened a CVE does not indicate they have
>>>
>>> contacted the open source project at all.  Please forward to
>>>
>>> geoserver-security email list (see security policy). It would be helpful
>>>
>>> if you describe what steps you have already taken to verify so the
>>>
>>> volunteers do not duplicate your effort.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> in fact, just because someone managed to open a CVE record it does not
>>> mean there is an actual vulnerability.
>>>
>>> The records at NIST
>>>
>>> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5786
>>>
>>> provide a link to
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Qxyday/GeoServe---unauthorized
>>>
>>> That seems to be the original input and exploit. (based on the
>>> descriptions and that page I fail to see any vulnerability at all!)
>>>
>>> Note that the CVE is logged against GWC 1.15.0 and 1.15.1, both are >5
>>> years old and no longer used in project-supported versions of GeoServer
>>> afaik.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
> --
> Ian Turton
>
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