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high 8.1

CVE-2016-1181 in the critical feed json

Improper Input Validation in Apache Struts

published 10y ago modified 25d ago also GHSA-7jw3-5q4w-89qg , EUVD-2022-3025

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.7%
EPSS 12.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ActionServlet.java in Apache Struts 1 1.x through 1.3.10 mishandles multithreaded access to an ActionForm instance, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (unexpected memory access) via a multipart request, a related issue to CVE-2015-0899.

Patch / fix

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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-2016-1181 updated cvss 6.8

struts: Vulnerability in ActionForm allows unintended remote operations against components on server memory

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 struts Red Hat Satellite 5 struts
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 struts 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

cisa ICSMA-20-184-01 updated cvss 6.2

OpenClinic GA (Update B)

  • OpenClinic GA 5.09.02, 5.89.05b
    affected: fixed in 5.170.5 sourceforge.net

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
25d ago

Exploit prediction

12.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/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:struts-core
<=1.3.10
 no fix listed
maven struts:struts
<=1.2.9
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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