Bamboo
CVE-2018-5224
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Bamboo did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repository URI contained values that the Windows operating system may consider argument parameters. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-20. Bamboo did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repository URI contained values that the Windows operating system may consider argument parameters. An attacker who has permission to create a repository in Bamboo, edit an existing plan in Bamboo that has a non-linked Mercurial repository, or create a plan in Bamboo either globally or in a project using Bamboo Specs can can execute code of their choice on systems that run a vulnerable version of Bamboo on the Windows operating system. All versions of Bamboo starting with 2.7.0 before 6.3.3 (the fixed version for 6.3.x) and from version 6.4.0 before 6.4.1 (the fixed version for 6.4.x) running on the Windows operating system are affected by this vulnerability. Affected products include: Atlassian Bamboo. Version information: before 6.3.3.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Bamboo did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repository URI contained values that the Windows operating system may consider argument parameters. An attacker who has permission to create a repository in Bamboo, edit an existing plan in Bamboo that has a non-linked Mercurial repository, or create a plan in Bamboo either globally or in a project using Bamboo Specs can can execute code of their choice on systems that run a vulnerable version of Bamboo on the Windows operating system. All versions of Bamboo starting with 2.7.0 before 6.3.3 (the fixed version for 6.3.x) and from version 6.4.0 before 6.4.1 (the fixed version for 6.4.x) running on the Windows operating system are affected by this vulnerability.
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Attack Technique
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Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Atlassian JIRA before 5.0.1; Confluence before 3.5.16, 4.0 before 4.0.7, and 4.1 before 4.1.10; FishEye and Crucible bef
Atlassian Bamboo before 5.11.4.1 and 5.12.x before 5.12.3.1 does not properly restrict permitted deserialized classes, w
An unspecified resource in Atlassian Bamboo before 5.9.9 and 5.10.x before 5.10.0 allows remote attackers to execute arb
The Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API, as used in Atlassian Bamboo before 5.9.9 and 5.10.x before 5.10.0, allows remote con
A vulnerability in multiple Atlassian products allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass Servlet Filters used
It was possible for double OGNL evaluation in FreeMarker templates through Struts FreeMarker tags to occur. Rated critic
Remote code execution in Atlassian Bamboo Data Center versions 9.6.0 through 12.1.0 allows authenticated attackers to ex
Bamboo 2.2 before 5.8.5 and 5.9.x before 5.9.7 allows remote attackers with access to the Bamboo web interface to execut
Multiple unspecified services in Atlassian Bamboo before 5.9.9 and 5.10.x before 5.10.0 do not require authentication, w
Bamboo did not check that the name of a branch in a Mercurial repository contained argument parameters. Rated critical s
Atlassian Bamboo 5.x before 5.15.7 and 6.x before 6.0.1 did not correctly check if a user creating a deployment project
Bamboo before 6.0.5, 6.1.x before 6.1.4, and 6.2.x before 6.2.1 had a REST endpoint that parsed a YAML file and did not
GitHub PoC
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