CVE-2020-36233 Privilege escalation in Bitbucket Data Center

What is CVE-2020-36233?

CVE-2020-36233 is a high-severity vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Data Center, published on 18 Feb 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Microsoft Windows Installer for Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center before version 6.10.9, 7.x before 7.6.4, and from version 7.7.0 before 7.10.1 allows local attackers to escalate privileges because of weak permissions on the installation directory.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36233?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Bitbucket.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36233?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-36233 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-36233 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36233 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Bitbucket Data Center

• CVE-2022-36804 Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Command Injection Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-5225 Path traversal in Bitbucket Server Critical 9.9
• CVE-2022-43781 Command injection in Bitbucket Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-15000 Command injection in Bitbucket Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-3397 Path traversal in Bitbucket Data Center Critical 9.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9x2m-28m5-328q.