Bug 1348253 (CVE-2016-4465) - CVE-2016-4465 struts: Possible DoS attack when using URLValidator
Summary: CVE-2016-4465 struts: Possible DoS attack when using URLValidator
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-4465
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-06-20 14:48 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:41 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: Struts 2.3.29, Struts 2.5.13
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:55:11 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-20 14:48:49 UTC
If an application allows enter na URL field in a form 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.

Affected versions: Struts 2.3.20 - Struts 2.3.28.1 and Struts 2.5

External References:

https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-041.html

Comment 1 gil cattaneo 2016-06-20 14:53:15 UTC
thanks for the information, but I remove from the CC list.

Comment 3 Chess Hazlett 2019-09-17 20:23:06 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.


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