Announcements 2018

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14 November 2018 - Apache Struts 2.3.x End-Of-Life (EOL) Announcement

The Apache Struts Project Team would like to inform you that the Struts 2.3.x web framework will reach its end of life in 6 months and won’t be longer officially supported.

Please check the following reading to find more details.

Apache Struts 2.3.x EOL Announcement, including a detailed Q/A section

15 October 2018 - Struts 2.3.36 General Availability

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.36 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

This release addresses one backward compatibility issue:

xml-validation fails since struts 2.5.17

Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

The 2.3.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 6.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.

You can download this version from our download page.

15 October 2018 - Struts 2.5.18 General Availability

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.5.18 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

Below is a full list of all changes:

jar_cache Some jar_cache**.tmp files are generated into a temporary directory(/tmp) during web service start
Struts 2.5.16 is creating jar_cache files in temp folder
MD5 and SHA1 should no longer be provided on download pages
xml-validation fails since struts 2.5.17

Internal Changes:

XWorkList was moved into a com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl package as com.opensymphony.xwork2.util package is excluded by the Internal Security Mechanism.

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

The 2.5.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 7.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.

You can download this version from our download page.

22 August 2018 - CVE-2018-11776 Apache Struts 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16

CVEID:CVE-2018-11776

PRODUCT:Apache Struts

VERSION:Apache Struts 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16

PROBLEMTYPE:Remote Code Execution

REFERENCES:S2-057

DESCRIPTION:Man Yue Mo from the Semmle Security Research team was noticed that Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16 suffer from possible Remote Code Execution when using results with no namespace and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace.

22 August 2018 - Struts 2.5.17 General Availability

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.5.17 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

In addition to critical overall proactive security improvements, this release addresses one potential security vulnerability:

Possible Remote Code Execution when using results with no namespace and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set. - S2-057

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

The 2.5.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 7.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.

You can download this version from our download page.

22 August 2018 - Struts 2.3.35 General Availability

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.35 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

In addition to critical overall proactive security improvements, this release addresses one potential security vulnerability:

Possible Remote Code Execution when using results with no namespace and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set. - S2-057

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

The 2.3.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 6.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.

You can download this version from our download page.

27 March 2018 - A crafted XML request can be used to perform a DoS attack when using the Struts REST plugin

The Apache Security Struts Team recommends to immediately upgrade your Struts 2 based projects to use the latest released version of the Apache Struts. This is necessary to prevent your publicly accessible web site, which is using the Struts REST plugin and performing XML serialisation, from being exposed to possible DoS attack.

You can find more details in a Security Bulletin S2-056

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

23 March 2018 - Immediately upgrade commons-fileupload to version 1.3.3

The Apache Struts Team recommends to immediately upgrade your Struts 2 based projects to use the latest released version of Commons FileUpload library, which is currently 1.3.3. This is necessary to prevent your publicly accessible web site from being exposed to possible Remote Code Execution attacks (see [1] [2]).

This affects any Struts version prior to 2.5.12 [3].

Your project is affected if it uses the built-in file upload mechanism of Struts 2, which defaults to the use of commons-fileupload. The updated commons-fileupload library is a drop-in replacement for the vulnerable version. Deployed applications can be hardened by replacing the commons-fileupload jar file in WEB-INF/lib with the fixed jar. For Maven based Struts 2 projects, the following dependency needs to be added:

<dependency>
  <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.3</version>
</dependency>

More details can be found here:

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

16 March 2018 - Struts 2.5.16 General Availability

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.5.16 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

Below is a full list of all changes:

unclosed instantiation of PrintWriter
Http Sessions forcefully created for all requests using I18nInterceptor with default Storage value.
NotSerializableException - org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.StrutsRequestWrapper
NotSerializableException: com.opensymphony.xwork2.inject.ContainerImpl$ConstructorInjector when using ExecuteAndWait interceptor
ClassCastException in JarEntryRevision
Dependency Mapping Exception When Using PrefixBasedActionProxyFactory
The converter() method of com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.annotations.TypeConversion is now deprecated. If this method is removed in some next release, it will forbid to describe a converter by the name (id) of a Spring bean.
Conversion by annotation does not work
List of Boolean is not populated in Action class
JSONResult exception in struts2-json-plugin-2.5.14.1.jar
buttons with name=”method:METHODNAME” sometimes ignore global-allowed-methods defined in struts.xml
Could not create JarEntryRevision for [zip:C:/…. unknown protocol c
NPE in I18nInterceptor$SessionLocaleHandler.read
JasperReportResult: NPE When Not Using SQL Connection
support JSR 303 Validation Groups in BeanValidation-Plugin
Debug tag should not display anything when not in dev mode
Allow using of Initializable interface on an implementation level
Allowed methods inheritance
Allow use Jackson XML bindings to serialise / deserialise XML
when using an custom array as a filed in struts 2 action form textfiled data from jsp page in not populating into custom array but populating in String array or array list
Upgrade Spring to version 4.3.13
Update Log4j2 to 2.10.0

Please read the Version Notes to find more details about performed bug fixes and improvements.

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

The 2.5.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 7.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.

You can download this version from our download page.

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