Vulnerability Database

289,784

Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-8738

In Apache Struts 2.5 through 2.5.5, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and the 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.

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.9
  • AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
apache / struts 2.5.2 2.5.2.x
apache / struts 2.5.1 2.5.1.x
apache / struts 2.5.4 2.5.4.x
apache / struts 2.5 2.5.x
apache / struts 2.5.5 2.5.5.x
apache / struts 2.5.3 2.5.3.x
org.apache.struts / struts2-core 2.5.0 2.5.13