Description
Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center had the pdkinstall development plugin incorrectly enabled in release builds. Attackers who can send unauthenticated or authenticated requests to a Crowd or Crowd Data Center instance can exploit this vulnerability to install arbitrary plugins, which permits remote code execution on systems running a vulnerable version of Crowd or Crowd Data Center. All versions of Crowd from version 2.1.0 before 3.0.5 (the fixed version for 3.0.x), from version 3.1.0 before 3.1.6 (the fixed version for 3.1.x), from version 3.2.0 before 3.2.8 (the fixed version for 3.2.x), from version 3.3.0 before 3.3.5 (the fixed version for 3.3.x), and from version 3.4.0 before 3.4.4 (the fixed version for 3.4.x) are affected by this vulnerability.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlassian | Crowd | 2.1.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 3.0.5, 3.1.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 3.1.6, 3.2.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 3.2.8, 3.3.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 3.3.5, 3.4.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – < 3.4.4 | unspecified |
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Metasploit 1 module
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Atlassian Crowd pdkinstall Unauthenticated Plugin Upload RCE
exploit/multi/http/atlassian_crowd_pdkinstall_plugin_upload_rce
GitHub 2 repositories
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jas502n/CVE-2019-11580 ★ 105 · Jul 17, 2019
CVE-2019-11580 Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center RCE
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shelld3v/CVE-2019-11580 ★ 6 · Mar 6, 2020
A CVE-2019-11580 shell
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
Automated scanner template
A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.
- Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-11580.yaml
Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.