Description
In Apache Struts 2.3.7 through 2.3.33 and 2.5 through 2.5.12, if an application allows entering a 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for S2-047 / CVE-2017-7672.
Published: 2017-09-20
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 4.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-x5x7-3v85-wpc4 Apache Struts allows entering a custom URL in a form field if built-in URLValidator is used
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:37:30.803Z

Reserved: 2017-06-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9804

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-20T17:29:00.620

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-9804

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9804 - Bugzilla

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