SB2017080902 - Denial of service in Apache Struts
Published: August 9, 2017 Updated: August 16, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017080902
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7672)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing malicious user-supplied data. A remote attacker can send specially crafted URL data to an application that accepts a user-provided URL in a form field and that processes the URL with the built-in URLValidator to overload the server process during validation.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.