Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libstruts1.2-java  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBSTRUTS12JAVA-620074
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed20 Sept 2017

Introduced: 20 Sep 2017

CVE-2016-6795  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (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.

In the Convention plugin in Apache Struts 2.3.x before 2.3.31, and 2.5.x before 2.5.5, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used for path traversal and execution of arbitrary code on server side.