Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2018-1066 |
Date Published: | 7 Nov 2018 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Sunday 11 November, 2018 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2016-1000031 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | Apache Struts versions 2.3.36 and before |
Vulnerability Description | An insecure deserialization vulnerability has been reported in Apache Struts. This vulnerability is due to deseralization of untrusted data while having the vulnerable version of Apache-Commons-FileUpload library. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted serialized object. |
This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Apache Struts Remote Code Execution (CVE-2016-1000031)