Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1488482
CVE-2017-9805 struts: RCE attack via REST plugin with XStream handler to deserialise XML requests
Last modified: 2018-03-28 09:11:12 EDT
The REST Plugin is using a XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering and this can lead to Remote Code Execution when deserializing XML payloads. Affected versions: Struts 2.5 - Struts 2.5.12 External References: https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-052.html
Created struts tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-7 [bug 1488487] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488488]
Statement: This issue did not affect any of the Red Hat products as they did not include the Apache Struts 2 package.