Kingdom: Environment

This section includes everything that is outside of the source code but is still critical to the security of the product that is being created. Because the issues covered by this kingdom are not directly related to source code, we separated it from the rest of the kingdoms.

Struts Misconfiguration: Missing Form Property Type

Java/JSP

Abstract

It is an error to define a form-property without a type type attribute.

Explanation

Struts requires <form-property> tags to include a type attribute. Struts will throw an exception when processing a form that defines a form-property with no type.

Example 1: The following configuration omits a type for the name property.


<form-bean name="loginForm" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
  <form-property name="name" />
  <form-property name="password" type="java.lang.String" />
</form-bean>

References

[1] Apache Struts 1.3 Specification

[2] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M1 Weak Server Side Controls

[3] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration

[4] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration

[5] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration

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