Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11580)
Severity: critical · Patch status: patched · Since 2021-11-03 · CVE-2019-11580
Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center contain a remote code execution vulnerability resulting from a pdkinstall development plugin being incorrectly enabled in release builds. CISA added CVE-2019-11580 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Nov 3, 2021, which means attackers are exploiting it in the wild. CISA reports known use in ransomware campaigns.
What to do
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- US federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022 (BOD 22-01); treat that as the outer limit.
Sources
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