CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-0233 — An access permission override in Apache Struts 2.0.0 to 2.5.20 may cause a Denial of Service when performing a file upload

High CVSS 7.5

An access permission override in Apache Struts 2.0.0 to 2.5.20 may cause a Denial of Service when performing a file upload.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-09-14
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-281

Affected products

  • apache / struts
  • oracle / communications_policy_management / 12.5.0
  • oracle / financial_services_data_integration_hub / 8.0.3
  • oracle / financial_services_data_integration_hub / 8.0.6
  • oracle / financial_services_market_risk_measurement_and_management / 8.0.6
  • oracle / mysql_enterprise_monitor

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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