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Improper Access Control

CVE-2017-18101

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Various administrative external system import resources in Atlassian JIRA Server (including JIRA Core) before version 7.6.5, from version 7.7.0 before version 7.7.3, from version 7.8.0 before version 7.8.3 and before version 7.9.0 allow remote attackers to run import operations and to determine if an internal service exists through missing permission checks.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published