Apache has recently released an advisory regarding CVE-2023-50164, a critical vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 that affects Apache Struts 2. CVE-2023-50164 is intricately tied to an organization’s Apache Struts architecture and the way it uses its file upload feature, enabling unauthorized path traversal that could be abused to upload a malicious file and perform remote code execution (RCE).

Source: Trend Micro