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Atlassian JIRA: CVE-2024-38819: Path Traversal (Arbitrary Read/Write) org.springframework:spring-webmvc Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

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Atlassian JIRA: CVE-2024-38819: Path Traversal (Arbitrary Read/Write) org.springframework:spring-webmvc Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/18/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/15/2025

Description

This High severity org.springframework:spring-webmvc Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.12.0 Jira Software Data Center and Server. This org.springframework:spring-webmvc Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N allows an attacker to craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running. Atlassian recommends that Jira Software Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: * Jira Software Data Center and Server 9.12: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.12.18 See the release notes (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives). You can download the latest version of Jira Software Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives). The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.

Solution(s)

  • atlassian-jira-upgrade-latest

References

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