Bug 799980 (CVE-2012-0838) - CVE-2012-0838 Struts2: Certain strings evaluated as OGNL expressions, leading to run-time data modification or arbitrary code execution
Summary: CVE-2012-0838 Struts2: Certain strings evaluated as OGNL expressions, leading...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-0838
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: 799982
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Reported: 2012-03-05 14:35 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 13:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-03-06 01:02:20 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-05 14:35:12 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-0838 to the following vulnerability:

Apache Struts 2 before 2.2.3.1 evaluates a string as an OGNL expression during the handling of a conversion error, which allows remote attackers to modify run-time data values, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via invalid input to a field.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0838
[2] http://struts.apache.org/2.3.1.2/docs/s2-007.html
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3668
[4] http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN79099262/index.html
[5] http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000012

Comment 2 Chess Hazlett 2019-09-17 20:38:16 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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