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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2017-9787 in the critical feed json

Spring AOP functionality (Struts) vulnerable to DoS attack

published 2017-07-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8mr5-h28g-36qx , EUVD-2018-0551

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.6%
EPSS 10.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When using a Spring AOP functionality to secure Struts actions it is possible to perform a DoS attack. Solution is to upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.12 or 2.3.33.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core 2.3.33, 2.5.12

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-2017-9787 updated cvss 3.1

struts: Denial of service when using a Spring AOP functionality

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 struts Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 struts struts Red Hat Satellite 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

Exploit prediction

10.55% 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 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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-core
>=2.3.7, <2.3.33
>=2.5.0, <2.5.12
2.3.33
2.5.12

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Struts

References

Sources

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