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TITLE:
XWork "ParameterInterceptor" Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32495

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
XWork 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/15569/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in XWork, which can be exploited by
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to the "ParameterInterceptor" class
improperly restricting access to server-side objects. This can be
exploited to modify server-side objects (e.g. "#session.user") via
specially crafted OGNL (Object-Graph Navigation Language)
expressions.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.0.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in an XWork bug by Meder Kydyraliev, Google Security Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
XWork:
http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/XW-641

Apache Struts:
http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/s2-003.html

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