CVE-2009-0843: OSGeo Mapserver

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The msLoadQuery function in mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a full pathname in the queryfile parameter, which triggers different error messages depending on whether this pathname exists.

Affected products

• OSGeo Mapserver: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.4.0 only; version 4.6.0 only; version 4.8.0 only; version 4.10.0 only; version 4.10.1 only; …
• Umn Mapserver: version 4.0 only

Published 2009-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.