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Jeromy Evans commented on WW-2316:
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It may need to be a separate flag from allowDynamicMethodCalls.
Dynamic method calls allows the developer to call public no-param methods
matching a certain name pattern (eg do{1}) and hopefully they use this whilst
aware of the venerabilities.
?method:METHOD_NAME provides access to any public no-param method.
I believe there are valid use-cases for the former option enabled without the
latter.
> ?method:METHOD_NAME vulnerability
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>
> Key: WW-2316
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2316
> Project: Struts 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Dispatch Filter
> Affects Versions: 2.0.11, 2.1.0
> Reporter: Dale Newfield
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> In order to allow multiple form submission buttons result in different
> behavior based on the button pressed, a specially named parameter is included
> in the form submission that instructs the ActionMapper to call a method
> indicated in the URL. This special parameter can be used to implement a
> credential escalation attack, though: If a user has suffiicient credentials
> to call a single method on an action, this provides a mechanism whereby they
> could call any method on that action. The "action!method.do" capability
> introduces a similar vulnerability, and the "allowDynamicMethodCalls" option
> closes that hole. Besides needing to provide a different mechanism to allow
> different form submission buttons to do different things, is there a large
> downside to using this same option ("allowDynamicMethodCalls") to close this
> hole as well?
> (Just to be explicit, that solution would wrap "if (allowDynamicMethodCalls)
> {" and "}" around lines 186-188 in
> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.mapper.DefaultActionMapper.java .)
> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13710147&framed=y
> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13711925&framed=y
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