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medium 6.2

CVE-2017-15707 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.struts:struts2-rest-plugin

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-xcrm-qpp8-hcw4 , EUVD-2018-0714

cvss
6.2
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Apache Struts 2.5 to 2.5.14, the REST Plugin is using an outdated JSON-lib library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted JSON payload.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.struts:struts2-rest-plugin 2.5.16

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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-2017-15707 updated cvss 7.5

struts2: Crafted JSON request can result in DoS

  • 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

4.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 6.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.struts:struts2-rest-plugin
>=2.5.0, <2.5.16
2.5.16

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Struts

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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