CVE-2022-43782 Auth bypass in Crowd Data Center

Critical 9.8 Published 17 Nov 2022 Updated 2 Oct 2024

Attackers with allowed IPs can bypass authentication to access privileged user management endpoints in Atlassian Crowd.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2022-43782?

CVE-2022-43782 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Atlassian Crowd Data Center, published on 17 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Affected versions of Atlassian Crowd allow an attacker to authenticate as the crowd application via security misconfiguration and subsequent ability to call privileged endpoints in Crowd's REST API under the {{usermanagement}} path.

This vulnerability can only be exploited by IPs specified under the crowd application allowlist in the Remote Addresses configuration, which is {{none}} by default.

The affected versions are all versions 3.x.x, versions 4.x.x before version 4.4.4, and versions 5.x.x before 5.0.3

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-43782?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Crowd.

How do I fix CVE-2022-43782?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-43782 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2022-43782 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-43782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j835-6ff4-p3mc.