Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center Arbitrary Plugin Install RCE

Strike ID:
E10-14zq1
CVSS:
7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
False Positive:
t
Variants:
1
Year:
2019

Description

This strike exploits a vulnerability in Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center due to the pdkinstall development plugin incorrectly enabled in release builds. Attackers who can send unauthenticated or authenticated requests to a Crowd or Crowd Data Center instance can exploit this vulnerability to install arbitrary plugins, which permit remote code execution on systems running a vulnerable version of the application.

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