SCA: security update for commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils (GHSA-p66x-2cv9-qq3v)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417328

Description

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

- Apache Commons BeanUtils, as distributed in lib/commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar in Apache Struts 1.x through
1.3.10 and in other products requiring commons-beanutils through 1.9.2, does not suppress the class
property, which allows remote attackers to "manipulate" the ClassLoader and execute arbitrary code via the
class parameter, as demonstrated by the passing of this parameter to the getClass method of the ActionForm
object in Struts 1. (CVE-2014-0114)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p66x-2cv9-qq3v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417328

Version: Revision 1.16

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.8

Percentile: 96.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0114

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Apache Struts ClassLoader Manipulation Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0114

BID: 67121

cwe: CWE-20