Headline

CVE-2023-44384: Possible SSRF by setting Jira URL to an arbitrary location

Discourse-jira is a Discourse plugin allows Jira projects, issue types, fields and field options will be synced automatically. An administrator user can make an SSRF attack by setting the Jira URL to an arbitrary location and enabling the discourse_jira_verbose_log site setting. A moderator user could manipulate the request path to the Jira API, allowing them to perform arbitrary GET requests using the Jira API credentials, potentially with elevated permissions, used by the application.

12 months ago

CVE

Open in Source

#ssrf #jira

Package

discourse-jira (Discourse)

Affected versions

<= f11be4c

Patched versions

> f11be4c

Description

Impact

An administrator user can make an SSRF attack by setting the Jira URL to an arbitrary location and enabling the discourse_jira_verbose_log site setting.
A moderator could manipulate the request path to the Jira API, allowing them to perform arbitrary GET requests using the Jira API credentials, potentially with elevated permissions.

Patches

The issue is patched in the latest version of the plugin.

Workarounds

Disable or uninstall the plugin temporarily.