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CVE-2017-5983

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

The JIRA Workflow Designer Plugin in Atlassian JIRA Server before 6.3.0 improperly uses an XML parser and deserializer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, read arbitrary files, or cause a denial of service via a crafted serialized Java object.

Affected products

• Atlassian Jira: 4.2.4, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4 (+60)

References

• http://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2017/04/amf.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97379
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira063/jira-security-advisory-2017-03-09-875604401.html
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-64077
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/307983
• http://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2017/04/amf.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97379
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira063/jira-security-advisory-2017-03-09-875604401.html
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-64077
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/307983

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