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Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-16858

CVE-2017-16858

Description

The 'crowd-application' plugin module (notably used by the Google Apps plugin) in Atlassian Crowd from version 1.5.0 before version 3.1.2 allowed an attacker to impersonate a Crowd user in REST requests by being able to authenticate to a directory bound to an application using the feature. Given the following situation: the Crowd application is bound to directory 1 and has a user called admin and the Google Apps application is bound to directory 2, which also has a user called admin, it was possible to authenticate REST requests using the credentials of the user coming from directory 2 and impersonate the user from directory 1.

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Affected products

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  • Atlassian/Crowd3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:crowd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:crowd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=1.5.0,<3.1.2
    • (no CPE)range: <3.1.2
    • (no CPE)range: from 1.5.0 before 3.1.2

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