Bug 975279 (CVE-2016-4003) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-4003: struts: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder functio
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-4003: struts: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2016-4003
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/167753/
Whiteboard: CVSSv2:NVD:CVE-2016-4003:4.3:(AV:N/A...
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Reported: 2016-04-13 08:17 UTC by Johannes Segitz
Modified: 2016-04-22 08:36 UTC (History)
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Description Johannes Segitz 2016-04-13 08:17:32 UTC 
CVE-2016-4003

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE
before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when using a single byte
page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
via multi-byte characters in a url-encoded parameter.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4003
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4507
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035268
http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-028.html
Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-04-13 22:00:14 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 4 Johannes Segitz 2016-04-22 08:36:27 UTC 
so since there are not calls to those functions the package is not affected by this CVE (still could be vulnerable)