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Atlassian JIRA: Untrusted Search Path (CVE-2019-20400)

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Atlassian JIRA: Untrusted Search Path (CVE-2019-20400)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/06/2020
Created
02/12/2020
Added
02/11/2020
Modified
09/17/2020

Description

The usage of Tomcat in Jira before version 8.5.2 allows local attackers with permission to write a dll file to a directory in the global path environmental variable can inject code into via a DLL hijacking vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • atlassian-jira-upgrade-8_5_2

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