This High severity PrivEsc (Priviledge Escalation) vulnerability was introduced in version 7.2.0 of Crowd Data Center.

This PrivEsc (Priviledge Escalation) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.1 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation, which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high 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 7.2.4

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:

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat when creating unix domain sockets allows an unauthorised local user to access the unix domain socket.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.24, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.57, from 9.0.42 through 9.0.120.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.25, 10.1.58, 9.0.121, which fixes the issue.