CVE-2006-1547
ActionForm in Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Struts before 1.2.9 with BeanUtils 1.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 54.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 21 Jan 2022
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
ActionForm in Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Struts before 1.2.9 with BeanUtils 1.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a multipart/form-data encoded form with a parameter name that references the public getMultipartRequestHandler method, which provides further access to elements in the CommonsMultipartRequestHandler implementation and BeanUtils.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Apache Struts 1 ActionForm Denial-of-Service Vulnerability.
- Added
- 21 Jan 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 21 Jul 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 21 Jan 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 54.6% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenstruts:strutsGHSA-7qwv-cwgj-c8rj (opens in a new tab)
References
10
- 1015856 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://struts.apache.org/struts-doc-1.2.9/userGuide/release-notes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17342 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 19493 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- struts-actionform-dos(25613) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:010 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 20117 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38534 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2006-1547 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3054 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-7qwv-cwgj-c8rj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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