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Security Advisory - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Jackson JSON library of Apache Struts2

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20180228-01-struts
  • Initial Release Date: 2018-02-28
  • Last Release Date: 2020-01-22

Apache Struts2 released a remote code execution vulnerability in S2-055 on the official website. An attacker is possible to perform a Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack with a malicious JSON packet. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-12002)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-7525.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180228-01-struts-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

OceanStor 9000

V300R006C20

FusionStorage 8.0.0

V300R006C20SPC100

V300R006C20SPC200

V300R006C20SPC300

eSDK

3.1.0

Upgrade to 3.2.RC1

3.1.0.SPC100

iManager NetEco

V600R008C10SPC100

Upgrade to V600R010C00SPC120

V600R008C20

V600R008C20SPC100

V600R008C30

iManager NetEco 6000

V600R007C90SPC100

Upgrade to V600R008C10SPC550

V600R007C91

V600R007C91SPC100

V600R008C00

V600R008C00SPC100

V600R008C10SPC100

V600R008C10SPC550



An attacker is possible to perform a RCE (Remote Code Execution) attack with a malicious JSON packet.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 9.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

An attacker can access the vulnerable products by network.

Vulnerability details:

Apache Struts2 released a remote code execution vulnerability in S2-055 on the official website. An attacker is possible to perform a Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack with a malicious JSON packet.

Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.

This vulnerability was disclosed in S2-055 on the Apache Struts2 official website.

2020-01-22 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2018-02-28 V1.0 INITIAL

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