Medium
Security advisory
In Apache Struts 2.5 to 2.5.14, the REST Plugin is using an outdated JSON-lib library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted JSON payload.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15707
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Apache Struts 2.5 to 2.5.14, the REST Plugin is using an outdated JSON-lib library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted JSON payload.
osv:CVE-2017-15707
Complete source record
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