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Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers and users

Impact of vulnerability

Possible DoS attack when using URLValidator

Maximum security rating

Low

Recommendation

Upgrade to Struts 2.5.78

Affected Software

Struts 2.5 - Struts 2.5.5

Reporter

 Jonathan Bullock <jonbullock at gmail dot com>

CVE Identifier

CVE-2016-8738

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Upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.78.

Backward compatibility

No backward incompatibility issues are expected.

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