Security News > 2017 > September > 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/
Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-11 | CVE-2017-5638 | Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Struts 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. | 10.0 |