Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2017-9805

TLP:CLEAR

Apache Struts Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

Apache Struts REST Plugin uses an XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering, which can lead to remote code execution when deserializing XML payloads.

Facts

  • Vendor: Apache
  • Product: Struts
  • CVSS: 8.1
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 99.4 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 3 November 2021
  • First known exploitation: 3 November 2021
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 3 May 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-502
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 3 November 2021

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD