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Summary

Excerpt

User input is evaluated as an OGNL expression when there's a conversion error

Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers

Impact of vulnerability

Remote Code Execution

Maximum security rating

Important

Recommendation

Developers should either upgrade to Struts 2.2.3.1 or apply the configuration changes described below

Affected Software

Struts 2.0.0 - Struts 2.2.3

Original JIRA Tickets

WW-3668

Reporter

Hideyuki Suzumi

CVE Identifier

-

Problem

User input is evaluated as an OGNL expression when there's a conversion error. This allows a malicious user to execute arbitrary code. 
A more detailed description is found in the referenced JIRA ticket.

Solution

Upgrade to Struts 2.2.3.1.