CVE-2017-7672

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 9.84 % · percentile 96 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2017-07-13
Updated: 2024-09-17
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Modified

Description

If an application allows enter an 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. Solution is to upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.12.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Advisories

GHSA-9gp7-jvm2-r4mx — Apache Struts Improper Input Validation vulnerability

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-0563
GCVE · GCVE-0-2017-7672

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Struts	affected 2.5 to 2.5.10.1

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD