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high 8.8

CVE-2016-0785 json

Apache Struts RCE Vulnerability

published 2016-04-12 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-876p-4wgc-75rx , EUVD-2022-3133

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.9%
EPSS 8.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "%{}" sequence in a tag attribute, aka forced double OGNL evaluation.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core 2.3.20.3, 2.3.24.3
  • apache struts 2.3.20.3

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-2016-0785 updated cvss 6.8

struts2: forced double OGNL evaluation on raw input in tag attributes

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 struts2-core struts2-core
    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

Exploit prediction

8.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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, <2.3.20.3
>=2.3.24, <2.3.24.3
2.3.20.3
2.3.24.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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