GHSA-864w-r5qj-h6fj

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    GHSA-864w-r5qj-h6fj

    Published: 14 May 2022Last Modified: 23 Apr 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2016-4461

    Summary: Apache Struts forced double OGNL evaluation

    Details: Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "%{}" sequence in a tag attribute, aka forced double OGNL evaluation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0785.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4461, https://github.com/apache/struts, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180629-0004, https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-036.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.apache.struts:struts2-core

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.struts/struts2-core

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.0.0
    Fixed -2.3.29

    Affected versions

    2.0.11
    2.0.11.1
    2.0.11.2
    2.0.12
    2.0.14
    2.0.5
    2.0.6
    2.0.8
    2.0.9

    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