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Who should read this | All Struts 2 developers and users |
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Impact of vulnerability | A DoS attack is possible when using outdated XStream library with the Struts REST plugin |
Maximum security rating | Medium |
Recommendation | Upgrade to Struts 2.5.13 or Struts 2.3.34 |
Affected Software | Struts 2.31.7 6 - Struts 2.3.33, Struts 2.5 - Struts 2 2.5.12 |
Reporter | Huijun Chen, Xiaolong Zhu |
CVE Identifier | CVE-2017-9793 |
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When using Maven, you can exclude the XStream library and use the latest 1.4.10 version. In other case replace the XStream jar in your final distribution package.