CVE-2019-11580

critical

Description

Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center had the pdkinstall development plugin incorrectly enabled in release builds. Attackers who can send unauthenticated or authenticated requests to a Crowd or Crowd Data Center instance can exploit this vulnerability to install arbitrary plugins, which permits remote code execution on systems running a vulnerable version of Crowd or Crowd Data Center. All versions of Crowd from version 2.1.0 before 3.0.5 (the fixed version for 3.0.x), from version 3.1.0 before 3.1.6 (the fixed version for 3.1.x), from version 3.2.0 before 3.2.8 (the fixed version for 3.2.x), from version 3.3.0 before 3.3.5 (the fixed version for 3.3.x), and from version 3.4.0 before 3.4.4 (the fixed version for 3.4.x) are affected by this vulnerability.

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2019-11580: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Atlassian Crowd Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Now Available
CVE-2019-11580: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Atlassian Crowd Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Now Available

Published: 2019-07-15

A proof-of-concept for critical Atlassian Crowd vulnerability patched on May 22 is now available. Background On July 14, security researcher Corben Leo published a blog detailing the analysis of a recently patched vulnerability in Atlassian Crowd, a user management application for access control for Active Directory (AD), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), OpenLDAP and Microsoft Azure AD.

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa21-209a

https://www.tenable.com/blog/government-agencies-warn-of-state-sponsored-actors-exploiting-publicly-known-vulnerabilities

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Oct/20/2002519884/-1/-1/0/CSA_CHINESE_EXPLOIT_VULNERABILITIES_UOO179811.PDF

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2019-11580-proof-of-concept-for-critical-atlassian-crowd-remote-code-execution

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5388

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108637

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163810/Atlassian-Crowd-pdkinstall-Remote-Code-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-06-03

Updated: 2022-04-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical