A flaw was found in the Struts REST plugin when using an outdated XStream library. An attacker could perform a denial of service attack using a malicious request with specially crafted XML payload.
Find out more about CVE-2017-9793 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect any of the Red Hat products as they did not include the Apache Struts 2 package.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.9 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | struts | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 | struts | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | struts | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | struts | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | struts | Not affected |
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