CVE-2016-8738
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 3.3%
exploitation probability
3.3%top 12% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In Apache Struts 2.5 through 2.5.5, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and the built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Struts