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Atlassian JIRA: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2021-43953)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2022
Added
Feb 25, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

Affected versions of Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center allow unauthenticated remote attackers to toggle the Thread Contention and CPU monitoring settings via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the /secure/admin/ViewInstrumentation.jspa endpoint. The affected versions are before version 8.13.16, and from version 8.14.0 before 8.20.5.

Solution

atlassian-jira-upgrade-8_21_0
Title
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