CVE-2016-4003

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    CVE-2016-4003

    Published: 12 Apr 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-028.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86311, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035268, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4507

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 2c0a197cea8fdc7d8cda5eeaa15a1c76507ac0a5
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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