Details
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Public Security Vulnerability
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Resolution: Done
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High
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3.4.6, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.1.6, 5.2.1, 5.1.7, 5.1.8, 5.0.10
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None
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7.5
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High
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CVE-2021-40690
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Atlassian (Internal)
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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Information Disclosure
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Crowd Data Center, Crowd Server
Description
This High severity org.apache.santuario:xmlsec Dependency vulnerability was introduced in all versions of Crowd Data Center and Server before 5.2.2
This org.apache.santuario:xmlsec Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has high impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, no impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.
Atlassian recommends that Crowd Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:
- All versions of Crowd Data Center and Server: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 5.2.2
See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/crowd-release-notes-199094.html). You can download the latest version of Crowd Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/download-archive).
The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: All versions of Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java prior to 2.2.3 and 2.1.7 are vulnerable to an issue where the "secureValidation" property is not passed correctly when creating a KeyInfo from a KeyInfoReference element. This allows an attacker to abuse an XPath Transform to extract any local .xml files in a RetrievalMethod element.