This High severity Cryptographic Failure vulnerability was introduced in versions 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, and 7.2.0 of Crowd Data Center.

This Cryptographic Failure vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.7 and a CVSS Vector of
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber, allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in
your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, no impact
to availability, and requires no user interaction.

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:

• 7.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 7.2.3

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-archive).

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

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, CCM-family modes write plaintext to caller buffer before tag check. This issue
also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7
(1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series).