Cross-site request forgery in Jira Software - CVE-2019-11588
Published: September 18, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21185
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11588
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Atlassian
Affected software:
Jira Software
Jira Software
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin passed via the "doGarbageCollection" method to the "ViewSystemInfo" class. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website such as trigger garbage collection.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-11588
Install update from vendor's website.