The credit security agency that recently faced a massive security breach, is yet to reveal the reasons behind the hacking which shook the company and compromised the security of more than 143 million Americans. Now it is being suggested that a security flaw in Apache Struts framework, which is an open source software for building Java Web applications, was what the hackers had successfully exploited to carry out the security breach. The vulnerability could be either CVE-2017-5638 or the recently exposed CVE-17-9805.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/apache-struts-security-flaw-may-cause-equifax-breach/