CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7672

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-07-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-13
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

If an application allows enter an URL in a form field and 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. Solution is to upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.12.

Affected configurations

• apache struts 2.5 • apache struts 2.5.1 • apache struts 2.5.2 • apache struts 2.5.5 • apache struts 2.5.8 • apache struts 2.5.10 • apache struts 2.5.10.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References