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Who should read this

All Struts 2 developers and users which are using the REST plugin

Impact of vulnerability

Not clear, please read the linked issue for more details. https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/1599

Maximum security rating

Medium

Recommendation

Upgrade to Struts 2.5.14.1 or Struts 2.4 (TBD)

Affected Software

Struts 2.1.1 - 2.3.34, Struts 2.5 - Struts 2.5.14

Reporter

 

CVE Identifier

 Related to CVE-2017-7525

Problem

A vulnerability was detected in the latest Jackson JSON library, which was reported here. Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson to version 2.9.2 to address CVE-2017-7525.

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Upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.14.1 or 2.4. Another solution is to manually upgrade Jackson dependencies in your project to not vulnerable versions, see this comment.

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