Exploit attempts inspired by recent Struts2 File Upload Vulnerability (CVE-2024-53677, CVE-2023-50164), (Sun, Dec 15th)

Last week, Apache announced a vulnerability in Struts2 [1]. The path traversal vulnerability scored 9.5 on the CVSS scale. If exploited, the vulnerability allows file uploads into otherwise restricted directories, which may lead to remote code execution if a webshell is uploaded and exposed in the web root. I call the exploit attempts below “inspired” by this vulnerability. There are at least two vulnerabilities that could be targeted. I do not have a vulnerable system to test if the exploit will work.

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