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Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers and users

Impact of vulnerability

A DoS attack is available for Spring secured actions

Maximum security rating

Medium

Recommendation

Upgrade to Struts 2.5.12

Affected Software

Struts 2.5 - Struts 2.5.10.1

Reporter

 Yasser Zamani <yasser dot zamani at live dot com>

CVE Identifier

 CVE-2017-978

Problem

When using a Spring AOP functionality to secure Struts actions it is possible to perform a DoS attack when user was properly authenticated

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