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Excerpt

Possible path traversal in the Convention plugin


Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers and users

Impact of vulnerability

Possible path traversal in the Convention plugin in Struts 2.3.20 - 2.3.30

Maximum security rating

High

Important

Recommendation

Upgrade to Struts 2.3.31 or Struts 2.5.5

Affected Software

Struts 2.3.1 - 2.3.30

Struts 2.5 - 2.5.2

Reporter

Takeshi Terada of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.

CVE Identifier

CVE-2016-6795

Problem

It is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used for path traversal and execution of arbitrary code on server side.

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