CVE-2025-22157 This High severity PrivEsc (Privilege Escalation) vulnerability was introduced in versions: 9.12.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, and 10.5.0 of Jira Core

What is CVE-2025-22157?

CVE-2025-22157 is a high-severity vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Data Center, published on 20 May 2025.

Official description

This High severity PrivEsc (Privilege Escalation) vulnerability was introduced in versions:

9.12.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, and 10.5.0 of Jira Core Data Center and Server

5.12.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, and 10.5.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center and Server

This PrivEsc (Privilege Escalation) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.2, allows an attacker to perform actions as a higher-privileged user.

Atlassian recommends that Jira Core Data Center and Server and Jira Service Management Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:

Jira Core Data Center and Server 9.12: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.12.20

Jira Service Management Data Center and Server 5.12: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 5.12.20

Jira Core Data Center 10.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.3.5

Jira Service Management Data Center 10.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.3.5

Jira Core Data Center 10.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.6.0

Jira Service Management Data Center 10.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.6.0

Jira Core Data Center 10.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.5.1

Jira Service Management Data Center 10.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.5.1

See the release notes. You can download the latest version of Jira Core Data Center and Jira Service Management Data Center from the download center.

This vulnerability was reported via our Atlassian (Internal) program.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22157?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Atlassian Jira Data Center, Atlassian Jira Server.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22157?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22157 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-22157 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22157 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Jira Data Center

• CVE-2021-26086 Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center Path Traversal Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2022-0540 Auth bypass in Jira Core Server Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-36239 Deserialization in Jira Core Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-22167 Path traversal in Jira Software Data Center High 8.7
• CVE-2019-20419 Other in Jira Server High 7.8

All Atlassian Jira Data Center vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-352j-376q-2pmc.