Authentication Bypass in Jira Seraph - CVE-2022-0540

(i) Updates

2022/05/05 11:30 AM PDT

• Updated the List of affected Atlassian Marketplace Apps section to note the following apps have non-vulnerable updates available:
  ** Secure Code Warrior® for Jira
  ** Simple Tasklists
  ** Simple Team Pages for Jira
  ** UiPath Test Manager for Jira
  ** Xporter - Export issues from Jira

2022/04/25 11:40 AM PDT

• Updated the List of affected Atlassian Marketplace Apps section of the [advisory|https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/jira-security-advisory-2022-04-20-1115127899.html] to note the following app is no longer supported:
  ** Feedback for Jira - Forms for website

2022/04/22 12:30 PM PDT

• Updated the List of affected Atlassian Marketplace Apps section of the [advisory|https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/jira-security-advisory-2022-04-20-1115127899.html] to note the following apps have non-vulnerable updates available:
  ** VCAP - Video Capture for Jira Service Management
  ** Who deleted my issues

2022/04/21 11:50 AM PDT

• Updated the List of affected Atlassian Marketplace Apps section of the [advisory|https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/jira-security-advisory-2022-04-20-1115127899.html] to note the following apps have non-vulnerable updates available:
  ** Calendar for Jira
  ** Dependent Select List
  ** Smart Checklist for Jira. Pro

Jira Server and Data Center vulnerable to an authentication bypass in its web authentication framework, Jira Seraph.

Although the vulnerability is in the core of Jira, it affects first and third party apps that specify {{roles-required}} at the {{webwork1}} action namespace level and do not specify it at an {{action}} level. For a specific action to be affected, the action will also need to not perform any other authentication or authorization checks.

For more information on potentially affected apps, please refer to the Determining which apps are affected section in [Atlassian’s security advisory|https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Jira+Security+Advisory+2022-04-20].

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this by requesting a specially crafted URL to bypass authentication and authorization requirements in WebWork actions using an affected configuration.

This vulnerability was discovered by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security.

Affected versions:

• version < 8.13.18
• 8.14.0 ≤ version < 8.20.6
• 8.21.0 ≤ version < 8.22.0

Fixed versions:

• 8.13.x >= 8.13.18
• 8.20.x >= 8.20.6
• All versions >= 8.22.0

References

[Jira Security Advisory 2022-04-20|https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Jira+Security+Advisory+2022-04-20]