Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center
Aug 26, 2022
Atlassian has rolled out fixes for a critical security flaw in Bitbucket Server and Data Center that could lead to the execution of malicious code on vulnerable installations. Tracked as CVE-2022-36804 (CVSS score: 9.9), the issue has been characterized as a command injection vulnerability in multiple endpoints that could be exploited via specially crafted HTTP requests. "An attacker with access to a public Bitbucket repository or with read permissions to a private one can execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious HTTP request," Atlassian said in an advisory. The shortcoming, discovered and reported by security researcher @TheGrandPew impacts all versions of Bitbucket Server and Datacenter released after 6.10.17, inclusive of 7.0.0 and newer - Bitbucket Server and Datacenter 7.6 Bitbucket Server and Datacenter 7.17 Bitbucket Server and Datacenter 7.21 Bitbucket Server and Datacenter 8.0 Bitbucket Server and Datacenter 8.1 Bitbucket Server and Datacenter 8.2, and