CVE-2022-36804 — Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Command Injection Vulnerability
Overview
Multiple API endpoints of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center contain a command injection vulnerability where an attacker with access to a public Bitbucket repository, or with read permissions to a private one, can execute code by sending a malicious HTTP request.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2022-36804
- Vulnerability
- Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Command Injection Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Atlassian
- Affected products
- Atlassian: Bitbucket Server and Data Center
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2022-09-30
Remediation guidance
CVE-2022-36804 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Atlassian the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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