Bug 723829 (CVE-2011-2088)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2088 struts: Allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via vectors involving an s:submit element
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	chazlett, dbhole, djorm, dwalluck, extras-orphan, jpazdziora, pcheung
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-21 09:34:44 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-2088 to the following vulnerability:

XWork 2.2.1 in Apache Struts 2.2.1, and OpenSymphony XWork in OpenSymphony WebWork, allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about internal Java class paths via vectors involving an s:submit element and a nonexistent method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1772.3.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2088
[2] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/518066/100/0/threaded
[3] http://secureappdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/Struts_2_XWork_WebWork_XSS_in_error_pages.html
[4] http://secureappdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/apache-struts-2-xwork-webwork-reflected.html
[5] http://www.ventuneac.net/security-advisories/MVSA-11-006
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3579

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-21 09:35:49 UTC

Based on:
[7] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693976#c3

it's more than likely this flaw would not affect any of our Struts-1.x package
version, shipped across different supported products. But we need to
double-check, confirm and note this.

Comment 3 Chess Hazlett 2019-09-17 20:41:18 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.