CVE-2019-20408 Server-side request forgery in Jira Server

What is CVE-2019-20408?

CVE-2019-20408 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Atlassian Jira, published on 1 Jul 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The /plugins/servlet/gadgets/makeRequest resource in Jira before version 8.7.0 allows remote attackers to access the content of internal network resources via a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability due to a logic bug in the JiraWhitelist class.

Weakness: CWE-918

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-20408?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Jira.

How do I fix CVE-2019-20408?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-20408 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.

Is CVE-2019-20408 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-20408 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Jira

• CVE-2020-14172 Deserialization in Jira Server Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-20409 Code injection in Jira Server Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-5983 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-1165 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2016-4319 Cross-site request forgery in Atlassian JIRA Server before 7.1.9 High 8.8

All Atlassian Jira vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-9fv9-67fw-mfp3.