Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2018-20238 is an Atlassian Crowd session-expiration flaw. A remote attacker could keep authenticating to some REST resources using a user session that should have expired. For executives, the concern is weakened access control in an identity-management system, but the provided sources do not give a CVSS score or active exploitation evidence. Exposure is limited to Atlassian Crowd deployments running versions before 3.2.7 or 3.3.0 through before 3.3.4. Risk is most relevant where Crowd REST resources are reachable to users or networks that may retain expired sessions. The bundle does not name other Atlassian products as affected. Treat this as a focused identity-platform patching item. It is not supported as actively exploited in the provided evidence, but session-expiration bypass in Crowd can undermine access controls. Prioritize confirmation of Crowd versions and upgrade any affected deployments. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Crowd to 3.2.7, 3.3.4, or a later supported version.; Review Atlassian CWD-5361 for vendor-specific remediation guidance.; Restrict access to Crowd REST resources where operationally feasible..
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- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5361CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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