CWE-16
OWASP 2013-A5
OWASP 2017-A6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N

Struts 2 Development Mode Enabled

Severity:
Medium
Summary

Invicti detected that the web application is running in Development Mode.

Struts 2 has a setting (which can be set to true or false in default.properties) called devMode. When this setting is enabled, Struts 2 will provide additional logging and debug information, which can significantly speed up development.

Impact

When Struts is running in Development Mode it can expose sensitive data of your application.

Remediation
Required Skills for Successful Exploitation
Actions To Take

Turn off Struts Development Mode by modifying your struts.xml file (or set devMode to false in the default.properties file)

<constant name="struts.devMode" value="false" />

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