Advisory severityCritical9.8Atlassian

Critical [CVE-2022-43782] Affected versions of Atlassian Crowd allow an attacker to authenticate as the crowd application

This critical-severity Atlassian advisory covers CVE-2022-43782; related products: Crowd.

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CVE-2022-43782 Source published Nov 17, 2022Source updated Jun 17, 2026

VulniPulse record published Nov 17, 2022Record updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-43782

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Summary

Affected versions of Atlassian Crowd allow an attacker to authenticate as the crowd application via security misconfiguration and subsequent ability to call privileged endpoints in Crowd's REST API under the {{usermanagement}} path.

This vulnerability can only be exploited by IPs specified under the crowd application allowlist in the Remote Addresses configuration, which is {{none}} by default.

The affected versions are all versions 3.x.x, versions 4.x.x before version 4.4.4, and versions 5.x.x before 5.0.3

Affected versions

all versions

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Fixed versions

5.0.3

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Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: 5.0.3. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

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