CVE-2016-6496
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
The LDAP directory connector in Atlassian Crowd before 2.8.8 and 2.9.x before 2.9.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an LDAP attribute with a crafted serialized Java object, aka LDAP entry poisoning.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539655/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93826
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/crowd-security-advisory-2016-10-19-856697283.html
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-4790
- https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Munoz-A-Journey-From-JNDI-LDAP-Manipulation-To-RCE-wp.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539655/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93826
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/crowd-security-advisory-2016-10-19-856697283.html
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-4790
- https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Munoz-A-Journey-From-JNDI-LDAP-Manipulation-To-RCE-wp.pdf
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.