Crowd Data Center and Server update for tomcat-coyote



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-38286
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Crowd
Server applications / Directory software, identity management

Crowd Data Center
Server applications / Other server solutions

Vendor Atlassian

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU97652

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38286

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources during the TLS handshake process. A remote attacker can initiate multiple TLS connections, trigger memory exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Crowd: 5.2.0 - 6.0.2

Crowd Data Center: 5.2.0 - 6.0.2

CPE2.3 External links

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-6309


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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