This is a vulnerability in a non-Atlassian Crowd dependency. Atlassian's application of this dependency presents a lower, non-critical assessed risk.

This Critical severity Injection vulnerability known as CVE-2025-9288 was introduced in versions 2.2.6, 2.4.11, 6.2.4, 6.3.0, and 7.1.0 of Crowd Data Center and Server.

This Injection vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 9.1 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify the actions taken by a system call.

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:

• Crowd Data Center and Server 7.1: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 7.1.2

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:

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in sha.js allows Input Data Manipulation.This issue affects sha.js: through 2.4.11.

This vulnerability was internally discovered using an automated Software Composition Analysis scanner.