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 | Important |
Recommendation | Always validate incoming parameters' values when re-assigning them to certain Struts' tags attributes. Don't use %{...} syntax in tag attributes unless you have a valid use-case. Alternatively upgrade to Struts 2.3.27 |
Affected Software | Struts 2.0.0 - Struts Struts 2.3.24.1 |
Reporter | Romain Gaucher rgaucher at coverity dot com - Coverity |
CVE Identifier | CVE-2016-0785 |
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Adding a proper validation of each value that's coming in and it's used in tag's attributes. Or don
Don't use forced evaluation of an attribute using %{...} syntax . Alternatively unless really needed for a valid use-case.
By upgrading upgrade to Struts 2.3.27, possible malicious effects of forced double evaluation are limited.
Backward compatibility
No issues expected when upgrading to Struts 2.3.27
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