This Critical severity MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) vulnerability was introduced in version 7.2.2 of Crowd Data Center.

This MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 9.8 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to potentially interdict connections to remote hosts, 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:

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat due to incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32990.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.20 through 11.0.24, from 10.1.53 through 10.1.57, from 9.0.115 through 9.0.120.

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