Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libstruts1.2-java  (opens in a new tab)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-621299
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed12 Apr 2016

Introduced: 12 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-4003  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (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.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when using a single byte page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via multi-byte characters in a url-encoded parameter.