DoS (Denial of Service) com.fasterxml.jackson.core in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity Third-Party Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.20.0, 9.4.0, 9.5.0, 9.6.0, 9.7.0, 9.8.0, 9.9.0, 9.10.0, and 9.11.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server.

This Third-Party 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:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Jira Software 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:

• Jira Software Data Center and Server 9.11: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.11.3

See the release notes. You can download the latest version of Jira Software Data Center and Server from the download center.

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: jackson-databind before 2.13.0 allows a Java StackOverflow exception and denial of service via a large depth of nested objects.