GHSA-qw4h-3xjj-84ccHighCVSS 7.5

Apache Tiles: Unvalidated input may lead to path traversal and XXE

Published
December 1, 2023
Last Modified
November 4, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-49735 →

📋 Description

The value set as the DefaultLocaleResolver.LOCALE_KEY attribute on the session was not validated while resolving XML definition files, leading to possible path traversal and eventually SSRF/XXE when passing user-controlled data to this key. Passing user-controlled data to this key may be relatively common, as it was also used like that to set the language in the 'tiles-test' application shipped with Tiles.

This issue affects Apache Tiles from version 2 onwards.

NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.apache.tiles:tiles-core:>= 2.0.0
  • maven/org.apache.struts:struts-tiles:>= 1.3.0, <= 1.3.10
  • maven/struts:struts:>= 1.1, <= 1.2.9

🔗 References (3)