?method:METHOD_NAME vulnerability
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                 Key: WW-2316
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2316
             Project: Struts 2
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Dispatch Filter
    Affects Versions: 2.0.11, 2.1.0
            Reporter: Dale Newfield


In order to allow multiple form submission buttons result in different behavior based on the button pressed, a specially named parameter is included in the form submission that instructs the ActionMapper to call a method indicated in the URL.  This special parameter can be used to implement a credential escalation attack, though:  If a user has suffiicient credentials to call a single method on an action, this provides a mechanism whereby they could call any method on that action.  The "action!method.do" capability introduces a similar vulnerability, and the "allowDynamicMethodCalls" option closes that hole.  Besides needing to provide a different mechanism to allow different form submission buttons to do different things, is there a large downside to using this same option ("allowDynamicMethodCalls") to close this hole as well?
(Just to be explicit, that solution would wrap "if (allowDynamicMethodCalls) {" and "}" around lines 186-188 in org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.mapper.DefaultActionMapper.java .)


http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13710147&framed=y
http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13711925&framed=y

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