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high 8.1

CVE-2013-2115 in the critical feed json

Code injection in Apache Struts

published 2013-07-10 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-7ghm-rpc7-p7g5 , EUVD-2022-3001

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
74.6%
EPSS 74.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Apache Struts 2 before 2.3.14.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OGNL code via a crafted request that is not properly handled when using the includeParams attribute in the (1) URL or (2) A tag. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1966.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core 2.3.14.2
  • maven org.apache.struts.xwork:xwork-core 2.3.14.2

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-2013-2115 updated cvss 6.8

struts2: remote command execution due to flaw in the includeParams attribute of URL and Anchor tags

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 struts
    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_include_params)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

74.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core
>=2.0.0, <2.3.14.2
2.3.14.2
maven org.apache.struts.xwork:xwork-core
>=2.0.0, <2.3.14.2
2.3.14.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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