CVE-2020-14191 Denial of service in Crucible

What is CVE-2020-14191?

CVE-2020-14191 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Atlassian Crucible, published on 25 Nov 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Affected versions of Atlassian Fisheye/Crucible allow remote attackers to impact the application's availability via a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the MessageBundleResource within Atlassian Gadgets. The affected versions are before version 4.8.4.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14191?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Fisheye.

How do I fix CVE-2020-14191?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-14191 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-14191 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14191 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-6qqr-fcpw-r77q.