Bug 1326724 – CVE-2016-2162 struts2: unsanitized text in the Locale object constructed by I18NInterceptor

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Bug 1326724 - (CVE-2016-2162) CVE-2016-2162 struts2: unsanitized text in the Locale object constructed by I18NInterceptor

Summary:	CVE-2016-2162 struts2: unsanitized text in the Locale object constructed by I...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-2162

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2016-04-13 07:23 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-04-13 12:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	struts2 2.3.25
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Last Closed:	2016-04-13 12:42:49 EDT
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-04-13 07:23:45 EDT

The Apache Struts framework uses I18NInterceptor to allow users and developers switch language used in the framework and an application built on top of it. The problem is that the interceptor doesn't perform any validation of the user input and accept arbitrary string which can be used by a developer to display language selected by the user. However, the framework doesn't expose the value directly in UI.

External references:

http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-030.html

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