DETECTION OVERVIEW
Risk Factors
An unauthenticated attacker can leverage publicly-available code to exploit this vulnerability. A successful exploit can result in the attacker gaining control of the server and launching attacks on other network devices.
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Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center are centralized identity management applications for enterprises. These applications include a pdkinstall development plugin that is incorrectly enabled. An attacker can exploit this plugin by sending an HTTP POST request (with a URI that ends with /admin/uploadplugin.action) to the application. The HTTP request includes a combination of one or more Java Archive (JAR) files for installing a malicious plugin. After the application receives the request, the application installs the plugin from the JAR files and runs malicious code on the server.
Upgrade to a fixed version
If unable to upgrade, delete any pdkinstall-plugin JAR files from the Crowd installation directory and the data directory and remove the pdkinstall-plugin JAR file from <Crowd installation directory>/crowd-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip
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