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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-31805

Using forced OGNL evaluation on untrusted user input can lead to a Remote Code Execution and security degradation.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 85.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 85.4%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The fix issued for CVE-2020-17530 was incomplete. So from Apache Struts 2.0.0 to 2.5.29, still some of the tag’s attributes could perform a double evaluation if a developer applied forced OGNL evaluation by using the %{...} syntax. Using forced OGNL evaluation on untrusted user input can lead to a Remote Code Execution and security degradation.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
85.43% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-917
Affected
apache/struts
Source
security@apache.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.