Summary

Possible RCE in the Struts Showcase app in the Struts 1 plugin example in Struts 2.3.x series

Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers and users should read this

Impact of vulnerability

Possible RCE when using the Struts 2 Struts 1 plugin

Maximum security rating

Important

Recommendation

Please read the Solution section

Affected Software

Struts 2.3.x with Struts 1 plugin and Struts 1 action

Reporter

icez <ic3z at qq dot com> from Tophant Competence Center

CVE Identifier

CVE-2017-9791

Problem

It is possible to perform a RCE attack with a malicious field value when using the Struts 2 Struts 1 plugin and it's a Struts 1 action and the value is a part of a message presented to the user, i.e. when using untrusted input as a part of the error message in the ActionMessage class.

Solution

Always use resource keys instead of passing a raw message to the ActionMessage as shown below, never pass a raw value directly

messages.add("msg", new ActionMessage("struts1.gangsterAdded", gform.getName()));

and never like this

messages.add("msg", new ActionMessage("Gangster " + gform.getName() + " was added"));

Backward compatibility

No backward incompatibility issues are expected.


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