CVE-2020-36238 Information disclosure in Jira Data Center

What is CVE-2020-36238?

CVE-2020-36238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Atlassian Jira, published on 1 Apr 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The /rest/api/1.0/render resource in Jira Server and Data Center before version 8.5.13, from version 8.6.0 before version 8.13.5, and from version 8.14.0 before version 8.15.1 allows remote anonymous attackers to determine if a username is valid or not via a missing permissions check.

Weakness: CWE-862, CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36238?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Atlassian Data Center, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Jira Data Center, Atlassian Jira Server.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36238?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-36238 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-36238 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36238 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Jira

• CVE-2017-18113 Code injection in Jira Data Center High 8.8
• CVE-2021-41312 Auth bypass in Jira Data Center High 7.5
• CVE-2021-39123 Denial of service in Jira Data Center High 7.5
• CVE-2021-39113 Missing authorization in Jira Data Center High 7.5
• CVE-2021-43947 Code injection in Jira Data Center High 7.2

All Atlassian Jira vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4f97-4vq5-662m.