Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard
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.
The University of Zurich is currently the target of a serious cyberattack. The perpetrators appear to be acting in a very professional manner and are part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions. Several attacks have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time. The attacks are usually carried out by compromising several individual accounts and systems.