Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libstruts1.2-java  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
99.99% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBSTRUTS12JAVA-614729
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed22 Aug 2018

Introduced: 22 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-11776  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libstruts1.2-java package and not the libstruts1.2-java package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16 suffer from possible Remote Code Execution when alwaysSelectFullNamespace is true (either by user or a plugin like Convention Plugin) and then: results are used with no namespace and in same time, its upper package have no or wildcard namespace and similar to results, same possibility when using url tag which doesn't have value and action set and in same time, its upper package have no or wildcard namespace.

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