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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2016-8738 EUVD-2022-3130GHSA-86vq-8qhc-5rqw

Apache Struts vulnerable to possible DoS attack when using URLValidator

Published Sep 20, 2017 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by apache

Description

In Apache Struts 2.5 through 2.5.5, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and the built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Struts 2.5 - 2.5.5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.13 2.5.13 GHSA-86vq-8qhc-5rqw

References