CVE-2016-6795: Apache Struts

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Convention plugin in Apache Struts 2.3.x before 2.3.31, and 2.5.x before 2.5.5, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used for path traversal and execution of arbitrary code on server side.

Affected products

• Apache Struts: version 2.3.20 only; version 2.3.20.1 only; version 2.3.20.2 only; version 2.3.20.3 only; version 2.3.21 only; version 2.3.22 only; …

Published 2017-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.