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medium 5.0

CVE-2010-1870 json

Server side object manipulation in Apache Struts

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-x5fc-pgpx-59j5 , EUVD-2022-5715

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
92.0%
EPSS 92.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.8%
public exploits
3
Metasploit and Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

The OGNL extensive expression evaluation capability in XWork in Struts 2.0.0 through 2.1.8.1, as used in Atlassian Fisheye, Crucible, and possibly other products, uses a permissive whitelist, which allows remote attackers to modify server-side context objects and bypass the "#" protection mechanism in ParameterInterceptors via the (1) #context, (2) #_memberAccess, (3) #root, (4) #this, (5) #_typeResolver, (6) #_classResolver, (7) #_traceEvaluations, (8) #_lastEvaluation, (9) #_keepLastEvaluation, and possibly other OGNL context variables, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6504.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core 2.2.1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-1870 updated cvss 5.0

Struts2/WebWorks/XWork: ParameterInterceptors bypass allows remote command execution

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/struts_code_exec)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

92.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core
<2.2.1
2.2.1

References

Sources

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