CVE-2008-2025

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Struts before 1.2.9-162.31.1 on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11, before 1.2.9-108.2 on SUSE openSUSE 10.3, before 1.2.9-198.2 on SUSE openSUSE 11.0, and before 1.2.9-162.163.2 on SUSE openSUSE 11.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to "insufficient quoting of parameters."

Published: 2009-04-09 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2025 is rated Moderate Risk (54.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.91%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. EPSS rose +4.69% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-2025

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 3.22% 7.91% +4.69%
2 2025-12-23 2.88% 3.22% +0.34%
3 2025-10-26 2.88%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-2025

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-2025

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2008-2025

GHSA-wcgx-2hvx-5cwr · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Apache Struts Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-2025

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2025
ubuntu medium CVE-2008-2025 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (libstruts1.1-java, libstruts1.2-java), 22 status rows across 11 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): DNE 9, ignored 7, not-affected 4, needs-triage 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-2025

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2008-2025

  • Red Hat (2009-10-20T00:00:00)

    This is not a security flaw in Struts. Struts has never guaranteed to perform filtering of the untrusted user inputs used as html tag attributes names or values. If user inputs need to be used as part of the tag attributes, the JSP page needs to perform filtering explicitly. For further details, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-2025

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-2025

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apache struts 1.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache struts 1.1 cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache struts 1.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache struts 1.2.7 cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:1.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache struts 1.2.8 cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:1.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-2025

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