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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-4003 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score | 4.3 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | None |
Integrity Impact | Partial |
Availability Impact | None |
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Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6.0.0 | struts2-core | Not affected |