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HistorySep 08, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

K12542008 : Apache Struts vulnerabilities CVE-2017-9793 and CVE-2017-9804

2017-09-0800:00:00
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AI Score

6.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.932

Percentile

99.1%

Security Advisory Description

The REST Plugin in Apache Struts 2.3.7 through 2.3.33 and 2.5 through 2.5.12 is using an outdated XStream library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted XML payload.

In Apache Struts 2.3.7 through 2.3.33 and 2.5 through 2.5.12, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for S2-047 / CVE-2017-7672.

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.