CVE-2016-8738

MEDIUM5.9EPSS 1.1%

Apache Struts vulnerable to possible DoS attack when using URLValidator

Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 2/19/2024

Description

If an application allows enter an URL in a form field and 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 packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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