Bug 986183 (CVE-2013-2251) - CVE-2013-2251 Apache Struts 2 arbitrary OGNL code execution via crafted parameters
Summary: CVE-2013-2251 Apache Struts 2 arbitrary OGNL code execution via crafted param...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-2251
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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Blocks: 985126
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Reported: 2013-07-19 07:36 UTC by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-07-19 07:51:42 UTC
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Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2013-07-19 07:36:43 UTC
The Struts 2 DefaultActionMapper supports a method for short-circuit navigation state changes by prefixing parameters with "action:" or "redirect:", followed by a desired navigational target expression. This mechanism was intended to help with attaching navigational information to buttons within forms.

In Struts 2 before 2.3.15.1 the information following "action:", "redirect:" or "redirectAction:" is not properly sanitized. Since said information will be evaluated as OGNL expression against the value stack, this introduces the possibility to inject server side code.

Upstream Advisory: http://struts.apache.org/release/2.3.x/docs/s2-016.html
Upstream bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4140
Upstream commit: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1503127

Comment 4 Chess Hazlett 2019-09-17 20:33:56 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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