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CVE-2012-1592

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 28.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

A local code execution issue exists in Apache Struts2 when processing malformed XSLT files, which could let a malicious user upload and execute arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Apache Struts: 2.0.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/12
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1592
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1592
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r348ed455a140273c40b974f0615dee692f7c9b26c6de2118b4280ef2%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r593ebb2f4c95b064e6901fd273eff256c493db952bdb484395948ffc%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r93c4e3f6cb138cd117c739714f07e47af547183ba099ba46be2b2a5b%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1592
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/12
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1592
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1592
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r348ed455a140273c40b974f0615dee692f7c9b26c6de2118b4280ef2%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r593ebb2f4c95b064e6901fd273eff256c493db952bdb484395948ffc%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E

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