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CVE-2017-12611

critical
Published 2017-09-20 · Modified 2024-02-16
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Apache Struts 2.0.1 uses an unintentional expression in a Freemarker tag instead of string literal

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44556 remote multiple verified
brianwrf · 2017-09-08

Apache Struts 2.0.1 < 2.3.33 / 2.5 < 2.5.10 - Arbitrary Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.struts:struts2-core>=2.0.1,<2.3.342.3.34
java Mavenorg.apache.struts:struts2-core>=2.5.0,<2.5.112.5.11

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachestruts2.0.1
apache apachestruts2.0.2
apache apachestruts2.0.3
apache apachestruts2.0.4
apache apachestruts2.0.5
apache apachestruts2.0.6
apache apachestruts2.0.7
apache apachestruts2.0.8
apache apachestruts2.0.9
apache apachestruts2.0.10
apache apachestruts2.0.11
apache apachestruts2.0.11.1
apache apachestruts2.0.11.2
apache apachestruts2.0.12
apache apachestruts2.0.13
apache apachestruts2.0.14
apache apachestruts2.1.0
apache apachestruts2.1.1
apache apachestruts2.1.2
apache apachestruts2.1.3
apache apachestruts2.1.4
apache apachestruts2.1.5
apache apachestruts2.1.6
apache apachestruts2.1.8
apache apachestruts2.1.8.1
apache apachestruts2.2.1
apache apachestruts2.2.1.1
apache apachestruts2.2.3
apache apachestruts2.2.3.1
apache apachestruts2.3.1
apache apachestruts2.3.1.1
apache apachestruts2.3.1.2
apache apachestruts2.3.3
apache apachestruts2.3.4
apache apachestruts2.3.4.1
apache apachestruts2.3.5
apache apachestruts2.3.6
apache apachestruts2.3.7
apache apachestruts2.3.8
apache apachestruts2.3.9
apache apachestruts2.3.10
apache apachestruts2.3.11
apache apachestruts2.3.12
apache apachestruts2.3.13
apache apachestruts2.3.14
apache apachestruts2.3.14.1
apache apachestruts2.3.14.2
apache apachestruts2.3.14.3
apache apachestruts2.3.15
apache apachestruts2.3.15.1
apache apachestruts2.3.15.2
apache apachestruts2.3.15.3
apache apachestruts2.3.16
apache apachestruts2.3.16.1
apache apachestruts2.3.16.2
apache apachestruts2.3.16.3
apache apachestruts2.3.17
apache apachestruts2.3.19
apache apachestruts2.3.20
apache apachestruts2.3.20.1
apache apachestruts2.3.20.2
apache apachestruts2.3.21
apache apachestruts2.3.22
apache apachestruts2.3.23
apache apachestruts2.3.24.2
apache apachestruts2.3.24.3
apache apachestruts2.3.25
apache apachestruts2.3.26
apache apachestruts2.3.27
apache apachestruts2.3.28
apache apachestruts2.3.28.1
apache apachestruts2.3.29
apache apachestruts2.3.30
apache apachestruts2.3.31
apache apachestruts2.3.32
apache apachestruts2.3.33
apache apachestruts2.5
apache apachestruts2.5.1
apache apachestruts2.5.2
apache apachestruts2.5.3
apache apachestruts2.5.4
apache apachestruts2.5.5
apache apachestruts2.5.6
apache apachestruts2.5.7
apache apachestruts2.5.8
apache apachestruts2.5.9
apache apachestruts2.5.10

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.