This High severity Apache Tomcat vulnerability was introduced in version 6.2.3 of Crowd Data Center.
This Apache Tomcat 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 attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation.
Atlassian recommends that Crowd 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:
Crowd Data Center 6.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 6.2.5
Crowd Data Center 6.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 6.3.2
See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/crowd-release-notes-199094.html). You can download the latest version of Crowd Data Center from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/download/data-center).
The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Allocation of resources for multipart headers with insufficient limits enabled a DoS vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload. This issue affects Apache Commons FileUpload: from 1.0 before 1.6; from 2.0.0-M1 before 2.0.0-M4. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 1.6 or 2.0.0-M4, which fix the issue.