ubuntu · CVE-2017-7672

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-07-13 15:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:38:17 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7672 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libstruts1.2-java), 5 status rows across 5 suites (trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 4, not-affected 1.

Description:

If an application allows enter an URL in a form field and 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. Solution is to upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.12.

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