CVE-2026-21569

Summary

This High severity XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability was introduced in version 7.1.0 of Crowd Data Center and Server.

This XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.9, allows an authenticated attacker to access local and remote content which has high impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction. 

Atlassian recommends that Crowd Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:
	
	* Crowd Data Center and Server 7.1: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 7.1.3
	
	

See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/crowd-release-notes-199094.html). You can download the latest version of Crowd Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/download-archive). 

This vulnerability was reported via our Atlassian (Internal) program.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AtlassianCrowd Data Center7.1.0 to 7.1.2affected
AtlassianCrowd Data Center7.1.3unaffected

Weaknesses

  • XXE (XML External Entity Injection)

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References