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CVE-2010-1870
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 92.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2010-08-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
The OGNL extensive expression evaluation capability in XWork in Struts 2.0.0 through 2.1.8.1, as used in Atlassian Fisheye, Crucible, and possibly other products, uses a permissive whitelist, which allows remote attackers to modify server-side context objects and bypass the "#" protection mechanism in ParameterInterceptors via the (1) #context, (2) #_memberAccess, (3) #root, (4) #this, (5) #_typeResolver, (6) #_classResolver, (7) #_traceEvaluations, (8) #_lastEvaluation, (9) #_keepLastEvaluation, and possibly other OGNL context variables, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6504.
Affected products
- Apache Struts: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+20)
References
- http://blog.o0o.nu/2010/07/cve-2010-1870-struts2xwork-remote.html
- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/FishEye+Security+Advisory+2010-06-16
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159643/LISTSERV-Maestro-9.0-8-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jul/183
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Oct/23
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59110
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8345
- http://struts.apache.org/2.2.1/docs/s2-005.html
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20140709-struts2
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14360
- http://www.osvdb.org/66280
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41592
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