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high 7.5

CVE-2019-0233 in the critical feed json

Improper Preservation of Permissions in Apache Struts

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-ccp5-gg58-pxfm , EUVD-2022-3561

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
66.1%
EPSS 66.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An access permission override in Apache Struts 2.0.0 to 2.5.20 may cause a Denial of Service when performing a file upload.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.struts:struts2-core 2.5.22

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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-2019-0233 updated cvss 7.5

struts2: access permission override when performing a file upload leads to DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 struts
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 struts struts Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 struts struts Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 struts struts Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight
    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

66.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/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 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/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
>=2.0.0, <2.5.22
2.5.22

Affected products

  • n/a Apache Struts

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions

References

Sources

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