7 December 2023 - Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 General Availability
The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.
The Apache Struts is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework has been designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.
This version addresses a potential security vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-50164 and described in S2-066 - please read the mentioned security bulletins for more details. This is a drop-in replacement and upgrade should be straightforward.
Several new vulnerabilities with critical severity scores are causing alarm among experts and cyber officials.
Zero-day bugs affecting products from Citrix and Apache have recently been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) known exploited vulnerability (KEV) list.
Incident responders at the cybersecurity company Rapid7 warned of hackers connected to the HelloKitty ransomware exploiting a vulnerability affecting Apache ActiveMQ, classified as CVE-2023-46604. Apache ActiveMQ is a Java-language open source message broker that facilitates communication between servers.
Recently, Apache MINA fixed an unsafe deserialization vulnerability. The bug exists in the class org.apache.sshd.server.keyprovider.SimpleGeneratorHostKeyProvider, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to deserialize and thus achieve remote code execution. Track as CVE-2022-45047, the flaw severity is important.
CVE-2022-42889, which some have begun calling “Text4Shell,” is a vulnerability in the popular Apache Commons Text library that can result in code execution when processing malicious input. The vulnerability was announced on October 13, 2022 on the Apache dev list and originally reported by Alvaro Munoz
Researchers have revealed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in Apache Cassandra that, if left unaddressed, could be abused to gain remote code execution on affected installations.
"This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra," Omer Kaspi, security researcher at DevOps firm JFrog, said in a technical write-up published Tuesday.