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CVE-2005-3745

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3745 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Struts 1.2.7 and potentially other versions. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into a user's browser via the query string, which is not properly sanitized when the request handler generates an error message. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium) with a low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting integrity (data manipulation) rather than confidentiality or availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit/Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:1.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
25.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26542 · Nov 21, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2571 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Application Server 3AS
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-9cjh-qmvx-436cmedium

Apache Struts Cross-site scripting Vulnerability

May 1, 2022
redhatCVE-2005-3745Low

security flaw

Nov 21, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/17677
secunia.com / advisories/18341
securityreason.com / securityalert/197
securitytracker.com / id
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r02c2d634fa74209d941c90f9a4cd36a6f12366ca65f9b90446ff2de3%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf482c101a88445d73cc2e89dbf7f16ae00a4aa79a544a1e72b2326db%40%3Cissues.struts.apache.org%3E
hacktics.com / AdvStrutsNov05.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 21021
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0157.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0161.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/417296/30/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/15512
ExploitPatch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2525