Upstream information

CVE-2017-5638 at MITRE

Description

The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 has incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 10
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (CISA-ADP) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.8 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1

Note from the SUSE Security Team

SUSE is not shipping struts version 2 packages, so SUSE is not affected by this problem.

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1028798 [NEW], 1029412 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE], 1029417 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • TID7018703, published Sa 3. Mär 11:58:31 CET 2018
  • TID7018709, published Sa 3. Mär 12:02:27 CET 2018


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Manager Server Module 4.3 struts Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Manager Server Module 4.2 struts Unsupported


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Mar 8 13:00:10 2017
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 15:52:54 2025