THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Who should read this | All Struts 2 developers and users |
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Impact of vulnerability | Possible Remote Code Execution vulnerability |
Maximum security rating | Medium |
Recommendation | Always validate incoming parameters' values when re-assigning them to certain Struts' tags attributes. Don't use %{...} syntax in tag attributes other than value unless you have a valid use-case. Alternatively upgrade to Struts 2.3.29 or Struts 2.5.1 |
Affected Software | Struts 2.0.0 - Struts 2.3.28.1 |
Reporters | Alvaro Munoz alvaro dot munoz at hpe.com |
CVE Identifier | CVE-2016-07854461 |
Problem
The same issue was reported in S2-029 but the proposed solutions were not fully proper. The Apache Struts frameworks when forced, performs double evaluation of attributes' values assigned to certain tags so it is possible to pass in a value that will be evaluated again when a tag's attributes will be rendered.
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