CVE-2012-0391

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-21), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2022-2464 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-4wrr-9h5r-m92w (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 76%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The ExceptionDelegator component in Apache Struts before 2.2.3.1 interprets parameter values as OGNL expressions during certain exception handling for mismatched data types of properties, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted parameter.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
76%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
76% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0391

Published

January 8, 2012

Last Modified

April 22, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 29, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/47393
Web page🟡 PoC Available

Apache Struts 2 < 2.3.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities - Multiple webapps Exploit

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18329
Web page

S2-008 - Apache Struts 2 Wiki - Apache Software Foundation

http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/s2-008.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
mavenorg.apache.struts:struts2-core @ 2.2.3.1 (fixes < 2.2.3.1)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.apache.struts:struts2-core2.0.11 ... 2.2.3 (16 versions)
  • every version up to 2.2.3.1: fixed in 2.2.3.1
—
org.apache.struts.xwork:xwork-core2.2.1, 2.2.1.1, 2.2.3
  • every version up to 2.2.3.1: fixed in 2.2.3.1
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 241 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 141 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 22:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 22:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4wrr-9h5r-m92w · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-01 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-11-01 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4wrr-9h5r-m92w · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-01 08:51 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 23:12 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-30 23:36 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-30 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  9. 2026-10-29 23:59 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-29 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  11. 2026-10-29 00:23 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-28 00:47 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  14. 2026-10-27 01:08 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-25 20:14 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  17. 2026-10-25 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-24 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-10-24 02:17 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-23 02:41 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-22 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  22. 2026-10-22 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  24. 2026-10-21 03:27 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-20 03:47 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-19 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  2. 2026-10-19 04:09 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-18 04:31 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 04:50 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-16 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-10-16 05:12 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-15 05:36 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  9. 2026-10-14 05:59 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  11. 2026-10-12 21:33 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 22:03 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 17:43 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 13:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  15. 2026-10-11 13:19 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-09 22:13 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-09 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  18. 2026-10-08 02:50 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-07 23:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  20. 2026-10-05 18:26 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-05 17:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  22. 2026-10-02 16:37 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-01 23:12 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-29 19:09 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-29 01:43 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-09-28 17:04 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-09-28 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  28. 2026-09-27 21:51 UTCCISA KEV update
  29. 2026-09-26 17:14 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-26 15:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  31. 2026-09-25 19:35 UTCCISA KEV update
  32. 2026-09-25 14:55 UTCCISA KEV update
  33. 2026-09-24 19:31 UTCCISA KEV update
  34. 2026-09-24 17:12 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-09-24 13:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  36. 2026-09-22 19:36 UTCCISA KEV update
  37. 2026-09-22 17:31 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-09-22 00:02 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-09-21 19:09 UTCCISA KEV update
  40. 2026-09-18 22:18 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
  42. 2026-09-18 14:15 UTCCISA KEV update
  43. 2026-09-17 20:18 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-09-16 18:18 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-16 14:10 UTCCISA KEV update
  46. 2026-09-16 13:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  47. 2026-09-16 05:17 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-09-15 03:18 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-15 03:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  50. 2026-09-14 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
  51. 2026-09-12 18:59 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-09-11 18:49 UTCCISA KEV update
  53. 2026-09-11 12:38 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-11 09:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  55. 2026-09-10 19:28 UTCCISA KEV update
  56. 2026-09-10 10:36 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-09 19:08 UTCCISA KEV update
  58. 2026-09-08 23:51 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-09-08 18:54 UTCCISA KEV update
  60. 2026-09-06 15:07 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-05 17:28 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-05 15:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  63. 2026-09-04 17:38 UTCCISA KEV update
  64. 2026-09-04 15:24 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-04 13:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  66. 2026-09-02 17:33 UTCCISA KEV update
  67. 2026-09-02 15:22 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-08-31 14:19 UTCCISA KEV update
  69. 2026-08-30 21:57 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-08-30 04:37 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-08-28 22:09 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-28 21:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 76% · 99th percentile
  73. 2026-08-27 17:22 UTCCISA KEV update
  74. 2026-08-26 17:53 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-08-26 17:41 UTCCISA KEV update

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-18984✓ verified
    Published Jun 5, 2012

    Apache Struts 2.2.1.1 - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/struts_code_exec_exception_delegator✓ verified
    Published Jun 3, 2012

    Apache Struts Remote Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-18329✓ verified
    Published Jan 6, 2012

    Apache Struts 2 < 2.3.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2012-0391?
CVE-2012-0391 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 8, 2012. The ExceptionDelegator component in Apache Struts before 2.2.3.1 interprets parameter values as OGNL expressions during certain exception handling for mismatched data types of properties, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via a crafted parameter.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2012-0391 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2012-0391 was published on January 8, 2012. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 22, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2012-0391 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2012-0391 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on January 21, 2022, affecting Apache Struts 2. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2012-0391?
CVE-2012-0391 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2012-0391?
CVE-2012-0391 affects Apache Struts 2. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2012-0391?
A fix for CVE-2012-0391 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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