ID:9864 - Exploit for Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Apache Struts - CVE-2011-5057

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to Apache Struts provides interfaces that do not properly restrict access to collections such as the session and request collections. A remote attacker can modify run-time data values via a crafted parameter to an application that implements an affected interface.

Remediation