CVE-2023-22521 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-22521

This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced...

Vulnerability Description

This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 3.4.6 of Crowd Data Center and Server. This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.0, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction. Atlassian recommends that Crowd Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: Crowd Data Center and Server 3.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 5.1.6 Crowd Data Center and Server 5.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 5.2.1 See the release notes ([https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/crowd-release-notes-199094.html]). You can download the latest version of Crowd Data Center and Server from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/download-archive]). This vulnerability was discovered by m1sn0w and reported via our Bug Bounty program

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • m1sn0w

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Crowd Data Center, Crowd Server
Vulnerable Versions:
< 3.4.6, >= 3.4.6, >= 5.2.0, >= 5.1.6, >= 5.2.1

Timeline

Official Publish: November 21st, 2023
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.