This High severity DoS (Denial of Service) Dependency vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-7254, was introduced in version 8.9.0 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server.

This vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.7 and a vector of CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X, allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform actions which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Bitbucket 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:

• Bitbucket Data Center and Server 8.18: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.19.25
• Bitbucket Data Center and Server 8.19: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.19.25

See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/release-notes). You can download the latest version of Bitbucket Data Center from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/download-archives). 

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.