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CVE-2017-5638
CWE-755
Critical
103.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 99.99%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Nov 2021
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-755
- Published
- 11 Mar 2017
- Last modified 21 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time