Oracle has stepped outside its usual quarterly security fix cycle to address the latest Apache Struts 2 vulnerability. Ever since it emerged at the start of September, CVE-2017-9805 has been (in the words of a former Australian prime minister) “a shiver looking for a spine to crawl up”, because so many vendors use Apache to build Web interfaces and bake Struts 2 into their their Web application framework.

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