Atlassian fixed critical flaws in Confluence and Crowd
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| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Flags | Affected | Exposure | Published |
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| CVE-2024-50379 | TOCTOU Race Condition in Apache Tomcat JSP Compilation Enables RCE CVE-2024-50379 is a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition (CWE-367) in Apache Tomcat's JSP compilation path that permits unauthenticated remote code execution when Tomcat runs on a case-insensitive file system and the default servlet is enabled for write, which is a non-default configuration. An attacker who can upload or modify files through the write-enabled default servlet can race the JSP compiler so that an altered file is compiled and executed in place of the version that was checked, yielding code execution in the context of the Tomcat process (CVSS 3.1 9.8, network vector with no privileges required). Affected versions are 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.1, 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.33, and 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.97, plus EOL releases 8.5.0 through 8.5.100 and possibly older EOL versions; NetApp products that embed Apache Tomcat are also listed as affected. The flaw is fixed in Tomcat 11.0.2, 10.1.34, and 9.0.98. As of this analysis there is no CISA KEV entry and no public PoC or confirmed in-the-wild exploitation is known, but EPSS assigns a 44.3% probability of exploitation within 30 days (99th percentile), making this a high-priority patch. Do: Upgrade Tomcat to 11.0.2, 10.1.34, or 9.0.98 as applicable; EOL 8.5.x deployments should migrate to a supported branch since no further 8.5 fixes are listed. Check whether your deployment runs on a case-insensitive file system (e.g., Windows, macOS) and whether the default servlet is enabled for write; if it is read-only, the exposure under the current description is low. NetApp customers should review NetApp security advisories for their products that embed Tomcat. | 9.8 | 44% |
| mass≈500,000+ internet-exposed Tomcat instances per public scan counts, with several million total deployments including embedded use | ||
| CVE-2024-52316 | Unchecked Error Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Unchecked Error Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. If Tomcat is configured to use a custom Jakarta Authentication (formerly JASPIC) ServerAuthContext component which may throw an exception during the authentication process without explicitly setting an HTTP status to indicate failure, the authentication may not fail, allowing the user to bypass the authentication process. There are no known Jakarta Authentication components that behave in this way. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M26, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.30, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.95. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Other EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0, 10.1.31 or 9.0.96, which fix the issue. NVD description · AI analysis pending | 9.8 | 6% |
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| CVE-2024-56337 | Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.1, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.33, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.97. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. The mitigation for CVE-2024-50379 was incomplete. Users running Tomcat on a case insensitive file system with the default servlet write enabled (readonly initialisation parameter set to the non-default value of false) may need additional configuration to fully mitigate CVE-2024-50379 depending on which version of Java they are using with Tomcat: - running on Java 8 or Java 11: the system property sun.io.useCanonCaches must be explicitly set to false (it defaults to true) - running on Java 17: the system property sun.io.useCanonCaches, if set, must be set to false (it defaults to false) - running on Java 21 onwards: no further configuration is required (the system property and the problematic cache have been removed) Tomcat 11.0.3, 10.1.35 and 9.0.99 onwards will include checks that sun.io.useCanonCaches is set appropriately before allowing the default servlet to be write enabled on a case insensitive file system. Tomcat will also set sun.io.useCanonCaches to false by default where it can. NVD description · AI analysis pending | 9.8 | 9% |
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Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2025

Australian software firm Atlassian patched 12 critical and high-severity flaws in Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Crowd, and Jira.
Software firm Atlassian released security patches to address 12 critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities in Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Crowd, and Jira products.
The most severe vulnerabilities addressed by the company are:
CVE-2024-50379 – (CVSS score of 9.8) – RCE (Remote Code Execution) org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Dependency in Confluence Data Center and Server in Confluence Data Center. The flaw is a TOCTOU race condition in Apache Tomcat that allows RCE on case-insensitive file systems with a non-default write-enabled servlet. Update to 11.0.2, 10.1.34, or 9.0.98.
CVE-2024-56337 – (CVSS score of 9.8) – RCE (Remote Code Execution) org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Dependency in Confluence Data Center and Server. The flaw is an Apache Tomcat’s TOCTOU vulnerability, caused by incomplete mitigation for CVE-2024-50379. The vulnerability requires extra config on case-insensitive file systems. Fix in 11.0.3, 10.1.35, 9.0.99.
CVE-2024-52316 – (CVSS score of 9.8) – BASM (Broken Authentication & Session Management) org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina Dependency in Crowd Data Center and Server. An unchecked error in Apache Tomcat’s Jakarta Authentication may allow auth bypass if a custom ServerAuthContext fails without setting an HTTP status. Affects versions 9.0.0-M1–9.0.95, 10.1.0-M1–10.1.30, 11.0.0-M1–11.0.0-M26. Upgrade to 9.0.96, 10.1.31, or 11.0.0.
CVE-2024-50379 – (CVSS score of 9.8) – A TOCTOU race condition in Apache Tomcat allows RCE on case-insensitive file systems. Affects versions 9.0.0.M1-9.0.97, 10.1.0-M1-10.1.33, 11.0.0-M1-11.0.1. Upgrade to 9.0.98, 10.1.34, or 11.0.2.
CVE-2024-56337 – (CVSS score of 9.8) – Apache Tomcat’s TOCTOU race condition (CVE-2024-50379) fix was incomplete. Affects versions 9.0.0-M1–9.0.97, 10.1.0-M1–10.1.33, 11.0.0-M1–11.0.1. Users on case-insensitive file systems with write-enabled default servlet need additional Java-specific mitigations. Fixed in Tomcat 9.0.99, 10.1.35, and 11.0.3.
The company did not disclose whether these flaws have been exploited in attacks in the wild.
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