CVE-2016-4465

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 10.4%

Apache Struts vulnerable to possible DoS attack when using URLValidator

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 2/16/2024

Description

The URLValidator class in Apache Struts 2 2.3.20 through 2.3.28.1 and 2.5.x before 2.5.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a null value for a URL field.

Affected packages (1)

Maven/org.apache.struts:struts2-core>= 2.3.20, < 2.3.29

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (9)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4465
PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/struts
WEBhttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000114
WEBhttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN12352818/index.html
WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348253
WEBhttps://github.com/apache/struts/commit/a0fdca138feec2c2e94eb75ca1f8b76678b4d152
WEBhttps://github.com/apache/struts/commit/eccc31ebce5430f9e91b9684c63eaaf885e603f9
WEBhttps://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-041.html
WEBhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21987854