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title: "CVE-2008-6505\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2008-6505

Publication date 23 March 2009

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2.0.x before
2.0.12 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary
files via a ..%252f (encoded dot dot slash) in a URI with a /struts/ path,
related to (1) FilterDispatcher in 2.0.x and (2) DefaultStaticContentLoader
in 2.1.x.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-6505?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| libstruts1.2-java | 8.10 intrepid | Ignored |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored |
| 7.10 gutsy | Ignored |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored |

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## Notes

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### [kees](https://launchpad.net/~kees)

does not seem to apply to 1.2.x series

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6505)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6505)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2008-6505)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-6505)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-6505>