CVE-2008-6505: Apache Struts

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 72.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2.0.x before 2.0.12 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..%252f (encoded dot dot slash) in a URI with a /struts/ path, related to (1) FilterDispatcher in 2.0.x and (2) DefaultStaticContentLoader in 2.1.x.

Affected products

• Apache Struts: version 2.0.6 only; version 2.0.8 only; version 2.0.9 only; version 2.0.11 only; version 2.0.11.1 only; version 2.0.11.2 only; …

Published 2009-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.