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PoC Code Surfaces to Exploit Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability

2018-08-24 22:07

Researchers find proof-of-concept code that can take advantage of the recently identified Apache Struts framework (CVE-2018-11776) vulnerability.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/poc-code-surfaces-to-exploit-apache-struts-2-vulnerability/136921/

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Related Vulnerability

DATE	CVE	VULNERABILITY TITLE	RISK
2018-08-22	CVE-2018-11776	Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16 suffer from possible Remote Code Execution when alwaysSelectFullNamespace is true (either by user or a plugin like Convention Plugin) and then: results are used with no namespace and in same time, its upper package have no or wildcard namespace and similar to results, same possibility when using url tag which doesn't have value and action set and in same time, its upper package have no or wildcard namespace. network high complexity apache netapp oracle	8.1

Related vendor

VENDOR	LAST 12M	#/PRODUCTS	LOW	MEDIUM	HIGH	CRITICAL	TOTAL VULNS
Apache		284	13	569	734	391	1707

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