Atlassian Crowd 2.6.x < 2.6.3 Information Disclosure

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 700021

Synopsis

The version of Atlassian Crowd installed on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure attack vector.

Description

The version of Crowd installed on the remote host is version 2.6.x prior to 2.6.3 and is affected by a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from the remote host by sending a specially crafted HTTP request with a Document Type Definition (DTD) header containing an XML external entity along with an entity reference.

Solution

Update to Crowd version 2.6.3 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-3366

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Crowd+2.6.3+Release+Notes

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 700021

Family: CGI

Published: 3/23/2017

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 67176

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:atlassian:crowd

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3925

BID: 60899