CVE-2016-8738

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

3%p88

Published

Sep 20, 2017 (Sep 20, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Apache Struts 2.5 through 2.5.5, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and the built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL.

Vendors: apache
Products: struts
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.3%)

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