This High severity DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability was introduced in versions 10.3.23 and 11.3.7 of Jira Software 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 expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation, which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Jira Software 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 Software Data Center 11.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 11.3.8
• Jira Software Data Center 10.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.3.24

See the release notes (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives). You can download the latest version
of Jira Software Data Center from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability:

Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.16.1 until 1.20.0, the RFC 2397 regular expression allows slash characters on both sides of the media-type separator. An application passes an attacker-controlled malformed data URL containing many slash characters and no comma. the JavaScript regular-expression engine explores many separator placements before rejecting the URL. Synchronous excessive backtracking can block the Node.js event loop and cause denial of service. The affected identifiers are fromDataURI, DATA_URL_PATTERN, data:. This issue is fixed in version 1.20.0.