Bug 975279 (CVE-2016-4003)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2016-4003: struts: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder functio
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Johannes Segitz <jsegitz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	smash_bz, tchvatal
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/167753/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv2:NVD:CVE-2016-4003:4.3:(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) CVSSv2:SUSE:CVE-2016-4003:6.4:(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) CVSSv2:RedHat:CVE-2016-4003:4.3:(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Johannes Segitz 2016-04-13 08:17:32 UTC

CVE-2016-4003

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE
before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when using a single byte
page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
via multi-byte characters in a url-encoded parameter.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4003
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4507
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035268
http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-028.html

Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-04-13 22:00:14 UTC

bugbot adjusting priority

Comment 4 Johannes Segitz 2016-04-22 08:36:27 UTC

so since there are not calls to those functions the package is not affected by this CVE (still could be vulnerable)