Security advisory

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  "id": "f6201e85703289e6868b3bc4af96fd3a45c118539a266f1bda2a4a60c6c9898d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4003",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-4003",
    "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when using a single byte page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via multi-byte characters in a url-encoded parameter.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-4003",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-4003",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-4003",
        "GHSA-m3x6-9v6h-4g28"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/struts",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "2c0a197cea8fdc7d8cda5eeaa15a1c76507ac0a5"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "7a9863169f7d981be0d2d57437974ae2cc0c8bd3"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.3.24.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4003.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:58.330039417Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4507"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "apache:struts",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.0.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.3.24.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-4003",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439068,
  "published_at": "2016-04-12T16:59:04.313+00:00"
}