ubuntu · CVE-2016-6795

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-09-20 17:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:42:44 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6795 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libstruts1.2-java), 7 status rows across 7 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): DNE 6, needs-triage 1.

Description:

In the Convention plugin in Apache Struts 2.3.x before 2.3.31, and 2.5.x before 2.5.5, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used for path traversal and execution of arbitrary code on server side.

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