Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Opensymphony WebWork, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Opensymphony WebWork XWork Input Validation OGNL Command Injection
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26694
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26694/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Opensymphony WebWork 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/15571/
Opensymphony WebWork 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/15572/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Opensymphony WebWork, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in XWork.
For more information:
SA26681
Successful exploitation may require that the "altSyntax" feature is
enabled.
The vulnerability is reported in Opensymphony WebWork 1.x prior to
1.2.3, WebWork 2.1, and WebWork 2.2.0 through 2.2.5.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.3 or 2.2.6.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/WW/1.2.3+Press+Release
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26681:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26681/
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