CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8738

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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 configurations

• apache struts 2.5 • apache struts 2.5.1 • apache struts 2.5.2 • apache struts 2.5.3 • apache struts 2.5.4 • apache struts 2.5.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References