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CVE-2016-8738
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-20T17:29:00.337 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:55.010

Summary

In Apache Struts 2.5 through 2.5.5, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and the 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.

Affected products

apache — struts

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