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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
This CVE is actively exploited in the wild. CISA mandates federal agencies to patch immediately.
CVE
CVE-2017-5638
9.8
CVSScritical
Exploitable remotely over the internet · no authentication required.
Description
The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 has incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string.
Attack Vector
Network
Privileges Req.
None
User Interaction
None
apache struts
Updated Sep 22, 2026View on NVD →
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CVE history: apache struts
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