This High severity DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.4.0 and 10.2.0 of Bitbucket Data Center.

This DoS (Denial of Service) 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 Bitbucket Data Center 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 10.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.2.6
• Bitbucket Data Center 9.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.4.26

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

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability:

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty's SPDY SETTINGS decoder accepts a peer-declared SETTINGS entry count up to the 24-bit frame-length limit and materializes every unique setting ID in `DefaultSpdySettingsFrame`, allowing a remote SPDY/3.1 peer to send a syntactically valid roughly 2 MiB SETTINGS frame that creates 262144 map entries and amplifies network input into heap growth and ordered-map insertion work. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.