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Content-Type: Malicious -New Apache Struts2 0-day Under Attack

Mar, 08, 2017 Hi-network.com

This Post Authored by Nick Biasini

UPDATE:It was recently disclosed that in addition to Content-Type being vulnerable, both Content-Disposition and Content-Length can be manipulated to trigger this particular vulnerability. No new CVE was listed, however details of the vulnerability and remediation are available in this security advisory.

Talos has observed a new Apache vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) is a remote code execution bug that affects the Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts, referenced in this security advisory. Talos began investigating for exploitation attempts and found a high number of exploitation events. The majority of the exploitation attempts seem to be leveraging a publicly released PoC that is being used to run various commands. Talos has observed simple commands (i.e. whoami) as well as more sophisticated commands including pulling down a malicious ELF executable and execution.

With exploitation actively underway Talos recommends immediate upgrading if possible or following the work around referenced in the above security advisory.

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