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USN-2551-1: Apache Standard Taglibs vulnerability

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USN-2551-1: Apache Standard Taglibs vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/09/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjakarta-taglibs-standard-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjstl1-1-java

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