This High severity DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.15.0, 5.16.0, 5.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 11.0.1, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, and 11.3.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center.

This DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a resource to be unavailable for its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Jira Service Management 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:

• Jira Service Management Data Center 10.3: Upgrade to a release between 10.3.7 - 10.3.15 or greater than or equal to 10.3.19
• Jira Service Management Data Center 11.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 11.3.2

See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicemanagement/jira-service-management-release-notes-780083086.html). You can download the latest version of Jira Service Management Data Center from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-management/download-archives).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: GzipSource does not handle an exception that might be raised when parsing a malformed gzip buffer. This may lead to denial of service of the Okio client when handling a crafted GZIP archive, by using the GzipSource class.