CVE-2017-9804

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    CVE-2017-9804

    Published: 20 Sept 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Apache Struts 2.3.7 through 2.3.33 and 2.5 through 2.5.12, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for S2-047 / CVE-2017-7672.

    References: http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2017-003.txt, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100612, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039261, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180629-0001/, https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170907-struts2, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/alert-cve-2017-9805-3889403.html, https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-050.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 28297863aee4d747638ce5b6f22262ac6a118ae0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.3.10
    2.3.11
    2.3.12
    2.3.13
    2.3.14
    2.3.14.1
    2.3.14.2
    2.3.14.3
    2.3.15
    2.3.15.1
    2.3.15.2
    2.3.15.3
    2.3.16
    2.3.16.1
    2.3.16.2
    2.3.16.3
    2.3.17
    2.3.19
    2.3.20
    2.3.20.1
    2.3.20.2
    2.3.21
    2.3.22
    2.3.23
    2.3.24.2
    2.3.24.3
    2.3.25
    2.3.26
    2.3.27
    2.3.28
    2.3.28.1
    2.3.29
    2.3.30
    2.3.31
    2.3.32
    2.3.33
    2.3.7
    2.3.8
    2.3.9

    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