Atlassian Jira < 8.5.5 DLL Hijacking

high Web App Scanning Plugin ID 113708

Synopsis

Atlassian Jira < 8.5.5 DLL Hijacking

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the instance of Atlassian Jira hosted on the remote web server is 8.0.x prior to 8.7.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability which permits when deployed onto the Windows operating system environment which allows local system attackers who have permission to write a dll file in a directory in the global path environmental variable variable to inject code & escalate their privileges via a DLL hijacking vulnerability.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Atlassian Jira version 8.5.5 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-70945

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 113708

Type: remote

Published: 3/8/2023

Updated: 6/1/2023

Scan Template: api, basic, full, pci, scan

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20419

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20419

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:jira:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20419