CVE-2026-21569

Authenticated XXE in Atlassian Crowd allowing external entity access

Published Jan 28, 2026 CVSS 3.0 · 7.9 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Authenticated XXE in Atlassian Crowd allowing external entity access
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Atlassian crowd
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:crowd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Atlassian crowd
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-611
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Atlassian
Atlassian crowd Data Center
Vendors & Products Atlassian
Atlassian crowd Data Center
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
References
Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 7.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H'}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
atlassian
Published
Updated
Jan 28, 2026, 2:49 PM
Reserved
Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jan 28, 2026, 1:16 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:18 AM