[jira] Resolved: (WW-2316) Ability to prevent method:METHOD_NAME access

["Don Brown (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2316?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Don Brown resolved WW-2316.
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       Resolution: Duplicate
    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.1.1)

See WW-2363

> Ability to prevent method:METHOD_NAME access
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-2316
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2316
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Dispatch Filter
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.11, 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Dale Newfield
>
> In order to allow multiple form submission buttons result in different behavior based on the button pressed, a specially named parameter is included in the form submission that instructs the ActionMapper to call a method indicated in the URL.  This special parameter can be used to implement a credential escalation attack, though:  If a user has suffiicient credentials to call a single method on an action, this provides a mechanism whereby they could call any method on that action.  The "action!method.do" capability introduces a similar vulnerability, and the "allowDynamicMethodCalls" option closes that hole.  Besides needing to provide a different mechanism to allow different form submission buttons to do different things, is there a large downside to using this same option ("allowDynamicMethodCalls") to close this hole as well?
> (Just to be explicit, that solution would wrap "if (allowDynamicMethodCalls) {" and "}" around lines 186-188 in org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.mapper.DefaultActionMapper.java .)
> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13710147&framed=y
> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13711925&framed=y

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