GHSA-j77q-2qqg-6989CriticalCVSS 10.0

Apache Struts vulnerable to remote arbitrary command execution due to improper input validation

Published
October 18, 2018
Last Modified
October 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Apache Struts versions prior to 2.3.32 and 2.5.10.1 contain incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts using the Jakarta Multipart parser, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.apache.struts:struts2-core:>= 2.3.0, <= 2.3.31
  • maven/org.apache.struts:struts2-core:>= 2.5.0, <= 2.5.10

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