CVE-2017-16858

Summary

CVECVE-2017-16858
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-31 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:25:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 'crowd-application' plugin module (notably used by the Google Apps plugin) in Atlassian Crowd from version 1.5.0 before version 3.1.2 allowed an attacker to impersonate a Crowd user in REST requests by being able to authenticate to a directory bound to an application using the feature. Given the following situation: the Crowd application is bound to directory 1 and has a user called admin and the Google Apps application is bound to directory 2, which also has a user called admin, it was possible to authenticate REST requests using the credentials of the user coming from directory 2 and impersonate the user from directory 1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Atlassian Crowd All All All All
Application Atlassian Crowd All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[CWD-5009] REST endpoint user impersonation using authentication module functionality - CVE-2017-16858 - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products. CONFIRM jira.atlassian.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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