Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for org.apache.struts:struts2-core (GHSA-m3x6-9v6h-4g28)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416699

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2016-4003)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m3x6-9v6h-4g28

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416699

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4003

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4003

BID: 86311

cwe: CWE-79