CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2016-8738 — Apache Struts security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 5.9
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.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.9 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-09-20
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- 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
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Check exposure
- Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
- Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
- Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.
Remediate safely
- Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
- Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
- Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.
Authoritative sources
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