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 affecting Crowd.
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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
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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.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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