CVE-2017-9514 Deserialization in Bamboo

What is CVE-2017-9514?

CVE-2017-9514 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Atlassian Bamboo, published on 12 Oct 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Bamboo before 6.0.5, 6.1.x before 6.1.4, and 6.2.x before 6.2.1 had a REST endpoint that parsed a YAML file and did not sufficiently restrict which classes could be loaded. An attacker who can log in to Bamboo as a user is able to exploit this vulnerability to execute Java code of their choice on systems that have vulnerable versions of Bamboo.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9514?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Bamboo.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9514?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-9514 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and only deserialise data from trusted sources or with an allow-list of types. More about Unsafe deserialization.

Is CVE-2017-9514 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9514 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Bamboo

• CVE-2026-21589 Atlassian Multiple Products Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Exploited Critical 9.3
• CVE-2022-26136 Auth bypass in Bamboo Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-5229 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-9757 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-8360 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2rqq-cg89-vq87.