Apache Struts vulnerable to memory exhaustion
Denial of service via out of memory (OOM) owing to no sanity limit on normal form fields in multipart forms. When a Multipart request has non-file normal form fields, Struts used to bring them into memory as Strings without checking their sizes. This could lead to an OOM if developer has set struts.multipart.maxSize to a value equal or greater than the available memory.
Upgrade to Struts 2.5.31 or 6.1.2.1 or greater
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVE-2023-34396 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.
CVE-2023-34396 is recorded against 4 packages.
Published on 14 June 2023 and last revised on 13 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
cwiki.apache.org (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
org.apache.struts:struts-core has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits) in other software:
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.apache.struts:struts-core | — | — |
| org.apache.struts:struts2-core | 6.0.0 | 6.1.2.1 |
| struts | 6.0.0 | 6.1.2.1 |
| struts:struts | — | — |
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