CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5983

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Apr 10, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The JIRA Workflow Designer Plugin in Atlassian JIRA Server before 6.3.0 improperly uses an XML parser and deserializer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, read arbitrary files, or cause a denial of service via a crafted serialized Java object.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jira Atlassian 4.2.4 (including) 4.2.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.3 (including) 4.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.3.1 (including) 4.3.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.3.2 (including) 4.3.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.3.3 (including) 4.3.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.3.4 (including) 4.3.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.4 (including) 4.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.4.1 (including) 4.4.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.4.2 (including) 4.4.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.4.3 (including) 4.4.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.4.4 (including) 4.4.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 4.4.5 (including) 4.4.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0.1 (including) 5.0.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0.2 (including) 5.0.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0.3 (including) 5.0.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0.4 (including) 5.0.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0.5 (including) 5.0.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.0.7 (including) 5.0.7 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1 (including) 5.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.1 (including) 5.1.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.2 (including) 5.1.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.3 (including) 5.1.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.4 (including) 5.1.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.5 (including) 5.1.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.6 (including) 5.1.6 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.7 (including) 5.1.7 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.1.8 (including) 5.1.8 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2 (including) 5.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.1 (including) 5.2.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.2 (including) 5.2.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.3 (including) 5.2.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.4 (including) 5.2.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.5 (including) 5.2.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.6 (including) 5.2.6 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.7 (including) 5.2.7 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.8 (including) 5.2.8 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.9 (including) 5.2.9 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.10 (including) 5.2.10 (including)
Jira Atlassian 5.2.11 (including) 5.2.11 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.1 (including) 6.0.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.2 (including) 6.0.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.3 (including) 6.0.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.4 (including) 6.0.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.5 (including) 6.0.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.7 (including) 6.0.7 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.0.8 (including) 6.0.8 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1 (including) 6.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.1 (including) 6.1.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.2 (including) 6.1.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.3 (including) 6.1.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.4 (including) 6.1.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.5 (including) 6.1.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.6 (including) 6.1.6 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.7 (including) 6.1.7 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.8 (including) 6.1.8 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.1.9 (including) 6.1.9 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2 (including) 6.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.1 (including) 6.2.1 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.2 (including) 6.2.2 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.3 (including) 6.2.3 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.4 (including) 6.2.4 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.5 (including) 6.2.5 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.6 (including) 6.2.6 (including)
Jira Atlassian 6.2.7 (including) 6.2.7 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
  • An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

References