This Critical severity Cryptographic Failure vulnerability was introduced in version 7.2.0 of Crowd Data Center.

This Cryptographic Failure vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 9.3 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/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 high 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:

• Crowd Data Center 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, Stapled OCSP response accepted without binding to the checked certificate. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series).