Atlassian addresses a critical Jira authentication bypass flaw
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| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Flags | Affected | Exposure | Published |
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| CVE-2021-26084 | Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL) Injection Vulnerability CVE-2021-26084 is an OGNL injection vulnerability (CWE-917) in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center that may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Any organization running Confluence Server or Data Center is potentially affected. It is significant because it is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with known ransomware use, and EPSS assigns a 100.0% probability of exploitation within 30 days (100th percentile). Do: Apply updates to Confluence Server and Data Center per Atlassian's instructions, which is the required action in the CISA KEV listing. Prioritize remediation given confirmed in-the-wild exploitation and known ransomware use. | 9.8 | 100% | KEV ransomware PoC |
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| CVE-2022-0540 | A vulnerability in Jira Seraph allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication by sending a specially crafted HTTP request. A vulnerability in Jira Seraph allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication by sending a specially crafted HTTP request. This affects Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center versions before 8.13.18, versions 8.14.0 and later before 8.20.6, and versions 8.21.0 and later before 8.22.0. This also affects Atlassian Jira Service Management Server and Data Center versions before 4.13.18, versions 4.14.0 and later before 4.20.6, and versions 4.21.0 and later before 4.22.0. NVD description · AI analysis pending | 9.8 | 88% |
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Atlassian fixed a critical flaw in its Jira software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540, that could be exploited to bypass authentication.
Atlassian has addressed a critical vulnerability in its Jira Seraph software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540 (CVSS score 9.9), that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication. A threat actor could trigger the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to vulnerable software.
The issue affects Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center versions before 8.13.18, versions 8.14.0 and later before 8.20.6, and versions 8.21.0 and later before 8.22.0. The flaw also impacts Atlassian Jira Service Management Server and Data Center versions before 4.13.18, versions 4.14.0 and later before 4.20.6, and versions 4.21.0 and later before 4.22.0.
“Jira and Jira Service Management are vulnerable to an authentication bypass in its web authentication framework, Jira Seraph. Although the vulnerability is in the core of Jira, it affects first and third party apps that specify roles-required at the webwork1 action namespace level and do not specify it at an action level. For a specific action to be affected, the action will also need to not perform any other authentication or authorization checks.” reads the security advisory published by the company. “A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to bypass authentication and authorization requirements in WebWork actions using an affected configuration.”
The company also provided mitigations for those users that are unable to install a fixed version of Jira or Jira Service Management and are using any affected apps. It recommends users to update any affected apps to a non-affected version.
Customers that are using any apps listed in the Determining which apps are affected section and all versions of the app are affected can mitigate the security risk by disabling the app until they’re able to install a fixed version of Jira or Jira Service Management.
The vulnerability was reported by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security.
In September, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting another critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-26084, in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux.
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