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
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.