Security Advisory 2023-12-04

We wish to advise our customers of a vulnerability in Refined for Jira Service Management Server / Data Center. Affected versions are 3.2.0-3.5.6.

Risk Assessment

Our assessment for the vulnerability is Medium as per Atlassian’s rating, because to carry out an attack, the user needs admin privileges or otherwise trick an admin user.

The vulnerability would allow an attacker that had Jira admin or Refined Admin permissions to perform a directory path traversal via filename.

If you have any questions regarding this, please reach out to us.

Fixed versions

This issue has been fixed in version 3.5.7. If you are currently on a lower version, we recommend to upgrade to the latest release or at least 3.5.7. Please note that if you upgrade via UPM, you will get the latest version. To upgrade to the lower ones you need to download the JAR file from the Atlassian marketplace and manually upload it in the UPM.

Special thanks

Special thanks goes to Jahmel Harris from NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) for discovering the vulnerability.