Title: EGI SVG INFORMATION [TLP:WHITE] Apache Struts vulnerabilities
[EGI-SVG-CVE-2017-12611]
Date: 2017-09-12
Updated: 2017-10-10
Affected software and risk
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Vulnerabilities concerning Apache Struts have been reported.
Package : Apache Struts
CVE ID : CVE-2017-12611 CVE-2017-9805
Remote code execution vulnerabilities have been reported in Apache Struts,
exploits are available publicly, and some sites are already seeing active
vulnerability probing for these vulnerabilities.
SVG has not identified any means where these vulnerabilities are exploitable in
EGI at present.
** UPDATE 2017-10-10 **
Further investigation was carried out, the development teams contacted, and no
other usage of Apache Struts was found.
Actions required/recommended
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None at present.
More information
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2 Remote code execution attacks have been identified [R 1] [R 2]
VOMS Admin, which uses Struts, has been assessed not vulnerable by the
developers.
SVG members are not aware of any other usage in EGI.
** Update 2017-10-10 **
The developer groups were alerted to this, in case any software is affected,
and none reported.
TLP and URL
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** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see
https://go.egi.eu/tlp for distribution restrictions **
URL: https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2017-12611
Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites
Comments
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Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu
If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI
you may report it by e-mail to
report-vulnerability at egi.eu
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the
procedure defined in [R 3]
References
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[R 1] https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-052.html
[R 2] https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-053.html
[R 3] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538
Credit
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SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Vincent Brillault
Timeline
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Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-2017-CVE-2017-12611]
2017-09-06 SVG alerted to this issue by Vincent Brillault
2017-09-06 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter
2017-09-06 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out for
VOMS Admin by Andrea Ceccanti
2017-09-08 Active vulnerability probing observed by Fyodor Yarochkin
2017-09-11 IRTF meeting agreed a good idea to inform sites
2017-09-12 Sites informed of current status
2017-10-10 No further usage of Apache Structs found, so advisory made public
and issue closed.
Context
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This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"
The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 3] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be
correct.
The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on how the
software is used.
Others may re-use this information provided they:-
1) Respect the provided TLP classification
2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group