Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center
CVE-2021-43953

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor: Atlassian
Status: Jira Server; Jira Data Center
Vendor: CVE Published:; 15 February 2022

What is CVE-2021-43953?

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to manipulate Thread Contention and CPU monitoring settings through the /secure/admin/ViewInstrumentation.jspa endpoint. This issue affects specific versions prior to 8.13.16 and versions from 8.14.0 before 8.20.5, potentially exposing systems to unauthorized configurations and security risks.

Affected Version(s)

Jira Data Center < 8.13.16

Jira Data Center next of 8.14.0

Jira Data Center < 8.20.5

References

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-73170

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CVSS V3.1

Score:

4.3

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

None

Integrity:

None

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Network

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

None

User Interaction:

Required

Scope:

Unchanged

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Timeline

Vulnerability published
Feb 15, 2022
Vulnerability Reserved
Nov 16, 2021

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