MEDIUM 5.9 Maven

Apache Struts vulnerable to possible DoS attack when using URLValidator

GHSA-86vq-8qhc-5rqw · CVE-2016-8738

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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.

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