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The Apache Security Struts Team recommends to immediately upgrade your Struts 2 based projects to use the latest released version of the Apache Struts. This is necessary to prevent your publicly accessible web site, which is using the Struts REST plugin and performing XML serialisation, from being exposed to possible DoS attack.
You can find more details in a Security Bulletin S2-056
All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.
The Apache Struts Team recommends to immediately upgrade your Struts 2 based projects to use the latest released version of Commons FileUpload library, which is currently 1.3.3. This is necessary to prevent your publicly accessible web site from being exposed to possible Remote Code Execution attacks (see [1] [2]).
This affects any Struts version prior to 2.5.12 [3].
Your project is affected if it uses the built-in file upload mechanism of Struts 2, which defaults to the use of commons-fileupload. The updated commons-fileupload library is a drop-in replacement for the vulnerable version. Deployed applications can be hardened by replacing the commons-fileupload jar file in WEB-INF/lib with the fixed jar. For Maven based Struts 2 projects, the following dependency needs to be added:
<dependency> <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId> <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId> <version>1.3.3</version> </dependency>
More details can be found here:
All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.
The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.5.16 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.
Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.
Below is a full list of all changes:
Please read the [Version Notes]({{ site.wiki_url }}/Version+Notes+2.5.16) to find more details about performed bug fixes and improvements.
All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.
The 2.5.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 7.
Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.
You can download this version from our download page.