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Jira - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2022-0540)

Severity
CVSSv3 Score
9.8
Exploitable with Sniper
No
Vulnerability description

Jira is affected by an Authentication Bypass vulnerability, located the Jira Seraph component which is the core authentication mechanism of Jira. The root cause of this vulnerability is the inconsistency inside the functions of the Seraph filter which performs a bad authorization action request resulting in a bypass of the required roles for the Jira plugins.

Risk description

The risk exists that a remote unauthenticated attacker can fully compromise the Jira Server to steal confidential information, install ransomware, or pivot to the internal network.

Recommendation

Upgrade the Atlassian Jira to the latest version.

Detectable with
Network Scanner
Vuln date
Apr 2022
Published at
Updated at
Software Type
Project management
Vendor
Atlassian
Product
Jira
Codename
Not available