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Equifax Confirms March Struts Vulnerability Behind Breach

2017-09-14 20:00

Equifax divulged on Wednesday that the culprit behind this summer's breach of 143 million Americans was an Apache Struts vulnerability, CVE-2017-5638, patched back in March.

News URL

http://threatpost.com/equifax-confirms-march-struts-vulnerability-behind-breach/127975/

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Related Vulnerability

DATE	CVE	VULNERABILITY TITLE	RISK
2017-03-11	CVE-2017-5638	Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in multiple products The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 has incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string. network low complexity apache ibm lenovo hp oracle arubanetworks netapp CWE-755 critical	9.8

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