Atlassian Bitbucket: CVE-2025-31650: DoS (Denial of Service) Third-Party Dependency in Bitbucket Data Center and Server

This High severity Third-Party Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.19.0, 9.4.0, and 9.6.0 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server.

This Third-Party 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:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Bitbucket 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:

* Bitbucket Data Center and Server 8.19: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.19.18

* Bitbucket Data Center and Server 9.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.4.6

* Bitbucket Data Center and Server 9.6: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.6.2

See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/release-notes). You can download the latest version of Bitbucket Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/download-archives).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Incorrect error handling for some invalid HTTP priority headers resulted in incomplete clean-up of the failed request which created a memory leak. A large number of such requests could trigger an OutOfMemoryException resulting in a denial of service.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 9.0.76 through 9.0.102, from 10.1.10 through 10.1.39, from 11.0.0-M2 through 11.0.5.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.104, 10.1.40 or 11.0.6 which fix the issue.