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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for jakarta-taglibs-standard (ALAS-2015-595) (CVE-2015-0254)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for jakarta-taglibs-standard (ALAS-2015-595) (CVE-2015-0254)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/09/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/23/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Apache Standard Taglibs before 1.2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct external XML entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XSLT extension in a (1) <x:parse> or (2) <x:transform> JSTL XML tag.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-jakarta-taglibs-standard
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc

References

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