Apache Struts 2 on the Naughty Step Again

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
4 min readAug 23, 2018

The software environments that have caused the most security problems in the industry have been Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Java, Microsoft Silverlight, OpenSSL and … Apache Structs. Each of these environments often allow code to be run in a sandboxed environment with administrator rights, and where the code jumps out of the sandbox and runs on the system.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.