Cross-site request forgery in Jira Software Server - CVE-2017-16862

 

Cross-site request forgery in Jira Software Server - CVE-2017-16862

Published: May 16, 2018 / Updated: May 17, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12770
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16862
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.

The weakness exists due to insufficient CSRF protections. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page or URL, trick the victim into visiting it, gain access to the system and modify the "incoming mail" whitelist setting.

Affected software

Jira Software Server

How to mitigate CVE-2017-16862

Update to versions 7.7.0, 7.6.2 or 7.6.3.


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