CVE-2023-25158: Geotools

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Geotools Geotools: before 24.7 (fixed in 24.7); from 25.0, before 25.7 (fixed in 25.7); from 26.0, before 26.7 (fixed in 26.7); from 27.0, before 27.4 (fixed in 27.4); from 28.0, before 28.2 (fixed in 28.2)

Published 2023-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.