[jira] [Updated] (WW-4947) server errors generated by secure-jakarta-multipart-parser-plugin

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4947?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Nicola updated WW-4947:
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    Description: 
 

Hi, my name is Nick,

first Jira here.

 

I installed secure-jakarta-multipart-parser-plugin-1.1 software to patch CVE-2017-5638 security issue.

Since it's an official plugin, I expected to find some documentation on how it works and what kind of response to expect from the server. But I didn't find any, I guess because the preferred patch is to actually update Struts version to a more secure one, which I can't do unfortunately.

PROBLEM: I'm getting several different exceptions when I try to attack the system.

Sometimes I just get the HTML. So I guess the attack has not worked (and the patch did stop it), but it's hard for me to understand why I get such different responses from the server.

My main doubt is why sometimes the server returns an error and sometimes it just returns the html.

 

Am i doing this right? Is this how it's supposed to work? Or is this an issue that should be 

handled somehow at the application level?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

  was:
 

Hi, my name is Nick,

first Jira here.

 

I installed secure-jakarta-multipart-parser-plugin-1.1 software to patch CVE-2017-5638 security issue.

Since it's an official plugin, I expected to find some documentation on how it works and what kind of response to expect from the server. But I didn't find any, I guess because the preferred patch is to actually update Struts version to a more secure one, which I can't do unfortunately.

PROBLEM: I'm getting several different exceptions when I try to attack the system.

Sometimes I just get the HTML. So I guess the attack has not worked (and the patch did stop it), but it's hard for me to understand why I get such different responses from the server.

My main doubt is way sometimes the server returns an error and sometimes it just returns the html.

 

Am i doing this right? Is this how it's supposed to work? Or is this an issue that should be 

handled somehow at the application level?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 


> server errors generated by secure-jakarta-multipart-parser-plugin
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-4947
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4947
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Dependency
>            Reporter: Nicola
>            Priority: Major
>
>  
> Hi, my name is Nick,
> first Jira here.
>  
> I installed secure-jakarta-multipart-parser-plugin-1.1 software to patch CVE-2017-5638 security issue.
> Since it's an official plugin, I expected to find some documentation on how it works and what kind of response to expect from the server. But I didn't find any, I guess because the preferred patch is to actually update Struts version to a more secure one, which I can't do unfortunately.
> PROBLEM: I'm getting several different exceptions when I try to attack the system.
> Sometimes I just get the HTML. So I guess the attack has not worked (and the patch did stop it), but it's hard for me to understand why I get such different responses from the server.
> My main doubt is why sometimes the server returns an error and sometimes it just returns the html.
>  
> Am i doing this right? Is this how it's supposed to work? Or is this an issue that should be 
> handled somehow at the application level?
>  
> Thanks in advance
>  
>  



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