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Struts2 S2-045 (CVE-2017-5638)

An Apache Struts 2.3.30 file upload application, vulnerable to S2-045 (CVE-2017-5638): the Jakarta multipart parser evaluates an OGNL expression placed in the Content-Type header.

Not startedDockercommit 960170ex86_64 · aarch64Secret

Objective

Exploit S2-045 (CVE-2017-5638) to run a command on the server.

The brief for this lab lives in its repository.

Submit evidenceSecret

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Open it in the Cyber CTF launcher, or run it yourself with Docker Compose.

Open in the launcher Source code

›Run it manually

$git clone https://github.com/CyberCTF/vulhub-struts2-s2-045 && cd vulhub-struts2-s2-045 && docker compose up -d

Without the launcher, the lab uses its public development evidence: great for practice, but it won't complete the lab.

Details

Category: Web
Difficulty: Medium
Evidence: Secret
Runtime: Docker
Runs on: x86_64, aarch64
Commit: 960170e
Repository: CyberCTF/vulhub-struts2-s2-045