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Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers and users

Impact of vulnerability

Possible path traversal in the Convention plugin in Struts 2.3.20 - 2.3.30

Maximum security rating

High

Recommendation

Upgrade to Struts 2.3.31 or to any version of or Struts 2.5.5

Affected Software

Struts 2.3.20 1 - Struts 2.3.30

Struts 2.5 - 2.5.2

Reporter

Takeshi Terada of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.

CVE Identifier

CVE-2016-6795

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Upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.3.31 or 2.5.5 when you are using Struts 2.3.20 - 2.3.30 with the Convention plugin.

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There is no known workaround for this vulnerability, please upgrade to the mentioned Struts versions.