CVE-2017-18108 Code injection in Crowd

What is CVE-2017-18108?

CVE-2017-18108 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Atlassian Crowd, published on 29 Mar 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The administration SMTP configuration resource in Atlassian Crowd before version 2.10.2 allows remote attackers with administration rights to execute arbitrary code via a JNDI injection.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18108?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Crowd.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18108?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-18108 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2017-18108 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18108 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Crowd

• CVE-2019-11580 Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-43782 Auth bypass in Crowd Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-6496 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-18105 Auth bypass in Crowd High 8.1
• CVE-2018-20238 Auth bypass in Crowd High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4cmr-5c3c-82qg.