The REST Plugin in Apache Struts 2.1.1 through 2.3.x before 2.3.34 and 2.5.x before 2.5.13 uses an XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering, which can lead to Remote Code Execution when deserializing XML payloads.
CVE-2017-9805
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2018-0602 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-gg9m-fj3v-r58c (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 76EG Risk 76/100
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)Severity81% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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 within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact. - EPSS PROB
- 99%
- 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 (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH.
- EG Severity
- 8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 99% 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 Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days 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)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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; 14 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (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-2017-9805
Published
September 15, 2017
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
Advisory Details (8)
Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2 Affecting Cisco Products: September 2017
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170907-struts2S2-052 - Apache Struts 2 Wiki - Apache Software Foundation
https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-052.htmlS2-052 - Apache Struts 2 Wiki - Apache Software Foundation
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-0521488482 – (CVE-2017-9805) CVE-2017-9805 struts: RCE attack via REST plugin with XStream handler to deserialise XML requests
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488482Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security Breach - The ASF Blog
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-struts-statement-on-equifaxPatch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | org.apache.struts:struts2-rest-plugin @ 2.5.13 (fixes >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.13) | — | ghsa |
| maven | org.apache.struts:struts2-rest-plugin @ 2.3.34 (fixes >= 2.1.1, < 2.3.34) | — | 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
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.apache.struts:struts2-rest-plugin | 2.5 ... 2.5.8 (8 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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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.
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- 2026-11-01 23:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 23:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gg9m-fj3v-r58c · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-11-01 08:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gg9m-fj3v-r58c · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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Publicly available exploits
(10 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 7 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Metasploitexploit/multi/http/struts2_rest_xstream✓ verifiedPublished Sep 8, 2017
Apache Struts 2 REST Plugin XStream RCE
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCShakun8/CVE-2017-9805Published Oct 3, 2022
CVE-2017-9805 POC
Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2017/CVE-2017-9805.yamlPublished Mar 5, 2021
Apache Struts2 S2-052 - Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCchrisjd20/cve-2017-9805.pyPublished Dec 4, 2017
Better Exploit Code For CVE 2017 9805 apache struts
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoC0x00-0x00/-CVE-2017-9805Published Nov 24, 2017
Exploit script for Apache Struts2 REST Plugin XStream RCE (CVE-2017-9805)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCLone-Ranger/apache-struts-pwn_CVE-2017-9805Published Sep 10, 2017
An exploit for Apache Struts CVE-2017-9805
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCmazen160/struts-pwn_CVE-2017-9805Published Sep 9, 2017
An exploit for Apache Struts CVE-2017-9805
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoChahwul/struts2-rce-cve-2017-9805-rubyPublished Sep 7, 2017
cve -2017-9805
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-42627Published Sep 6, 2017
Apache Struts 2.5 < 2.5.12 - REST Plugin XStream Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCluc10/struts-rce-cve-2017-9805Published Sep 6, 2017
CVE 2017-9805
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