apache/struts · Security
Apache Struts vulnerable to possible DoS attack when using URLValidator
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xg75-68x3-7p3q
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-4465
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
The URLValidator class in Apache Struts 2 2.3.20 through 2.3.28.1 and 2.5.x before 2.5.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a null value for a URL field.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4465 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348253 ↗
- https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-041.html ↗
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN12352818/index.html ↗
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000114 ↗
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21987854 ↗
- https://github.com/apache/struts/commit/a0fdca138feec2c2e94eb75ca1f8b76678b4d152 ↗
- https://github.com/apache/struts/commit/eccc31ebce5430f9e91b9684c63eaaf885e603f9 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg75-68x3-7p3q ↗