QID 730247

Date Published: 2021-11-16

QID 730247: Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center Code Injection Vulnerability (JRASERVER-72978)

Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions.

CVE-2021-42574: Affected versions of Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft source code that renders different logic than the logical ordering of tokens ingested by compilers and interpreters.

Affected version:
Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center version prior to 8.13.3
Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center version between 8.14.0 and 8.19.1 (inclusive)

Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center version 8.20.x LTS versions before 8.20.1

QID Detection Logic:(Unauthenticated)
It checks for vulnerable version of Atlassian Jira.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow adversaries to encode source code for compilers accepting Unicode.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.1 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are advised to refer to JRASERVER-72978 for updates pertaining to this vulnerability.
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    JRASERVER-72978 URL Logo jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-72978