CVE-2017-16859 Path traversal in Fisheye and Crucible

What is CVE-2017-16859?

CVE-2017-16859 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Atlassian Crucible, published on 28 Jun 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The review attachment resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.3.2, from version 4.4.0 before 4.4.3 and before version 4.5.0 allows remote attackers to read files contained within context path of the running application through a path traversal vulnerability in the command parameter.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-16859?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Fisheye.

How do I fix CVE-2017-16859?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-16859 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2017-16859 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16859 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Crucible

• CVE-2021-43958 Security feature bypass in Crucible Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-16861 Code injection in Fisheye and Crucible Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14591 Command injection in Fisheye and Crucible Critical 9.0
• CVE-2020-4018 Cross-site request forgery in Crucible High 8.8
• CVE-2018-13399 Privilege escalation in Fisheye and Crucible High 7.8

All Atlassian Crucible vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7g56-562g-3wgx.