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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-73223

Upgrade Tomcat to version 8.5.75 - CVE-2020-9484/CVE-2022-23181

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      The latest version of Tomcat bundled in Jira 8.21 is 8.5.72.

      Vulnerability is referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_8.5.75_security-8 advisory.

      (CVE-2020-9484)
      When using Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M4, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.34, 8.5.0 to 8.5.54 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.103 if a) an attacker is able to control the contents and name of a file on the server; and b) the server is configured to use the PersistenceManager with a FileStore; and c) the PersistenceManager is configured with sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter=null (the default unless a SecurityManager is used) or a sufficiently lax filter to allow the attacker provided object to be deserialized; and d) the attacker knows the relative file path from the storage location used by FileStore to the file the attacker has control over; then, using a specifically crafted request, the attacker will be able to trigger remote code execution via deserialization of the file under their control. Note that all of conditions a) to d) must be true for the attack to succeed.

      The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore. 

      Solution
      Upgrade to Apache Tomcat version 8.5.75 or later.

      Workaround
      How to upgrade Apache Tomcat version used by Jira

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              4e432536cf93 Karol Skwierawski
              2e696d0b504b Marcel Sokolovsky (Inactive)
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