Aaron Katz created VELTOOLS-172:
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Summary: Upgrade to supported, secure version of Apache Commons
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Key: VELTOOLS-172
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-172
Project: Velocity Tools
Issue Type: Bug
Components: VelocityStruts
Affects Versions: 2.0, 2.0.x, 2.1, 2.x
Reporter: Aaron Katz
*Please upgrade struts to a supported, secure version*. At this time, that
means upgrading to 2.3.32 or 2.5.10.1
h2. vulnerabilities
There are publicly known high severity vulnerabilities, including remote code
execution vulns, affecting all versions of Struts 2 except the versions cited
above.
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https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?adv_search=true&cves=on&cpe_vendor=cpe%3a%2f%3aapache&cpe_product=cpe%3a%2f%3a%3astruts&cvss_version=3&cve_id=
* (details not yet in NVD) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-045
h2. support
Apache struts 1 [reached end of life in the year
2000|https://struts.apache.org/struts1eol-announcement.html], but
[VelocityTools depends upon Struts
1.3.8|http://velocity.apache.org/tools/2.0/dependencies.html].
When vulnerabilities are discovered in unsupported software, the industry
standard response is "you need to patch to a supported version." If you get
too far behind in patch levels, then it may be very difficult to upgrade due to
broken backwards compatibility.
Furthermore, when vulnerabilities are discovered in supported software, there
is no industry standard for determining if it affects unsupported versions.
It's entirely possible that there are known vulnerabilities that affect the
unsupported Struts 1.3.8 required by Velocity, and nobody will know until
they're breached. On the other hand, when there's a supported major version,
it's a de-facto industry standard to announce all supported versions that are
affected. This means that staying on a supported version increases the chances
of seeing vulnerability announcements for vulns that affect Velocity. It also
means that staying on an unsupported version is considered equivalent to
staying on a known vulnerable version.
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