CVE-2017-9804

2017-09-2000:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.024 Low

EPSS

Percentile

89.8%

JSON

In Apache Struts 2.3.7 through 2.3.33 and 2.5 through 2.5.12, if an
application allows entering a URL in a form field and built-in URLValidator
is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to
overload server process when performing validation of the URL. NOTE: this
vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for S2-047 /
CVE-2017-7672.