CVE-2017-9805: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

September 15, 2017 (updated August 12, 2019)

The REST Plugin in Apache Struts uses an XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering, which can lead to Remote Code Execution when deserializing XML payloads.

References

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.1.2 up to 2.1.6, all versions starting from 2.1.8 up to 2.1.8.1, all versions starting from 2.2.1 up to 2.2.1.1, all versions starting from 2.2.3 up to 2.2.3.1, all versions starting from 2.3.1 up to 2.3.1.2, all versions starting from 2.3.3 up to 2.3.4.1, all versions starting from 2.3.7 up to 2.3.8, version 2.3.12, all versions starting from 2.3.14 up to 2.3.14.3, all versions starting from 2.3.15 up to 2.3.15.3, all versions starting from 2.3.16 up to 2.3.16.3, all versions starting from 2.3.20 up to 2.3.20.1, version 2.3.20.3, all versions starting from 2.3.24 up to 2.3.24.1, version 2.3.24.3, all versions starting from 2.3.28 up to 2.3.28.1, all versions starting from 2.3.29 up to 2.3.33, all versions starting from 2.5.1 up to 2.5.10.1, all versions starting from 2.5.11 up to 2.5.12