Bug 1488481 (CVE-2017-9793)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9793 struts: DoS attack via crafted XML payload processed by REST Plugin using XStream library
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, bkearney, chazlett, dbhole, felias, ggainey, gvarsami, hchiorea, jcoleman, jolee, jshepherd, kconner, ldimaggi, loleary, meissner, mmraka, nwallace, pavelp, puntogil, rwagner, spinder, taw, tcunning, theute, thomas, tkirby, tlestach, vhalbert
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	struts 2.5.13, struts 2.3.34	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Struts REST plugin when using an outdated XStream library. An attacker could perform a denial of service attack using a malicious request with specially crafted XML payload.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2017-09-06 08:49:11 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1488487, 1488488
Bug Blocks:	1488486

Description Adam Mariš 2017-09-05 13:43:38 UTC

The REST Plugin is using outdated XStream library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted XML payload.

Affected versions:	

Struts 2.3.7 - Struts 2.3.33, Struts 2.5 - Struts 2.5.12

External References:

https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-051.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-09-05 14:01:17 UTC

Created struts tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1488487]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488488]

Comment 4 Chess Hazlett 2019-09-17 19:59:05 UTC

Statement:

A previous statement by Red Hat related to this CVE, prior to August 2019, said that Apache Struts 2 is not included in any Red Hat products. This earlier statement was incorrect. While Struts 2 is not actively compiled, shipped, used, or enabled in any Red Hat provided final products, and does not cause any vulnerability in the product, struts2-core jars have been included in some products' source code packages. The inclusion was part of an import of the Google Guice repository, which includes struts2-core. Customers that build artefacts from our source code could be at risk. Red Hat will remove these artefacts from source code in future releases.

The products that included the Struts 2 artefacts in their source jars:
Fuse Service Works 6.0.0
Single Sign On 7.3.0+

If you have used the source package from one of these products to build artefacts on your system, you should do the following to remove potentially affected jars:
1. Run 'find . -name struts2*.jar' under the source location
2. Remove any files found
This will not affect the product, as the jar is included with the source of google-guice, but no functionality requiring struts2 is implemented.