Bug 1057268 – VUL-0: CVE-2017-9793: struts: DoS attack via crafted XML payload prcoessed by REST Plugin using XStream library

Bug 1057268 - (CVE-2017-9793) VUL-0: CVE-2017-9793: struts: DoS attack via crafted XML payload prcoessed by REST Plugin using XStream library

(CVE-2017-9793)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2017-9793: struts: DoS attack via crafted XML payload prcoessed by...

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Minor
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/191453/
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Reported:	2017-09-05 15:47 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified:	2017-09-05 15:50 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus Meissner 2017-09-05 15:47:25 UTC

rh#1488481



References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488481
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-9793
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9793

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2017-09-05 15:48:20 UTC

The REST Plugin is using outdated XStream library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted XML payload.

Affected versions:	

Struts 2.3.7 - Struts 2.3.33, Struts 2.5 - Struts 2.5.12

External References:

https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-051.html

Comment 2 Marcus Meissner 2017-09-05 15:48:50 UTC

we do not ship struts2.