In January 2016, Laksh Raghavan of PayPal wrote about how his company managed their response to a critical Java open source component vulnerability in one of their applications. Similar to the vulnerable Struts2 component being implicated in last week’s Equifax breach of 143 million consumer records, the vulnerability at PayPal would allow for remote execution of code — the most critical form of software vulnerability.

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