CVE-2016-4461

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4461
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4461.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4461
Aliases
Published
2017-10-16T16:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-24T10:31:03Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "%{}" sequence in a tag attribute, aka forced double OGNL evaluation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0785.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "2.0.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "2.3.29"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "apache:struts"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/struts

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/struts
Events
Introduced
2c0a197cea8fdc7d8cda5eeaa15a1c76507ac0a5
Fixed
bb22c585b5b52967fab033dba02cd244cd5b5b7a
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2.3.29"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4461.json"