CVE-2019-11581· NVD / CVE Program· CNA atlassian

There was a server-side template injection vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center, in the ContactAdministrators and the SendBulkMail a

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Now (action score 94/100)

CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Mar 7, 2022). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Sep 7, 2022.
A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 84.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.7% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Patch today or shut off access. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

There was a server-side template injection vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center, in the ContactAdministrators and the SendBulkMail actions. An attacker is able to remotely execute code on systems that run a vulnerable version of Jira Server or Data Center. All versions of Jira Server and Data Center from 4.4.0 before 7.6.14, from 7.7.0 before 7.13.5, from 8.0.0 before 8.0.3, from 8.1.0 before 8.1.2, and from 8.2.0 before 8.2.3 are affected by this vulnerability.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded

BDU:2020-00077

Published: Aug 9, 2019
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 84.6% · 99th percentile
CWE: CWE-74

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Patch today or shut off access.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS: 25 / 30 · 84.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: active
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Mar 7, 2022. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Sep 7, 2022.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
atlassian	jira server	cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:jira_server

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

atlassian jira server4.4 and later · before 7.6.14
atlassian jira server7.7.0 and later · before 7.13.5
atlassian jira server8.0.0 and later · before 8.0.3
atlassian jira server8.1.0 and later · before 8.1.2
atlassian jira server8.2.0 and later · before 8.2.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (atlassian). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center
- 4.4.0 and later · before unspecifiedaffected
- unspecified and later · before 7.6.14affected
- 7.7.0 and later · before unspecifiedaffected
- unspecified and later · before 7.13.5affected
- 8.0.0 and later · before unspecifiedaffected
- unspecified and later · before 8.0.3affected
- 8.1.0 and later · before unspecifiedaffected
- unspecified and later · before 8.1.2affected
- 8.2.0 and later · before unspecifiedaffected
- unspecified and later · before 8.2.3affected

Same product

atlassian: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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54Plan
CVE-2021-43942Affected versions of Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a Reflected Cro
41Plan
CVE-2019-20400The usage of Tomcat in Jira before version 8.5.2 allows local attackers with permission to write a dll file to a directory in the global pat
31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2017-18102Apr 17, 2018 · The wiki markup component of atlassian-renderer from version 8.0.0 before version 8.0.22 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2019-3400May 3, 2019 · The labels gadget in Jira before version 7.13.2, and from version 8.0.0 before version 8.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTM
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2019-8448Aug 13, 2019 · The login.jsp resource in Jira before version 7.13.4, and from version 8.0.0 before version 8.2.2 allows remote attackers to enumerate usern
22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

Nuclei detection template ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×3

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2019-11581	—
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:93	2019-07-16
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:10	2019-07-25
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:6	2021-05-04

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

First PoCJul 16, 2019-25 d
PublishedAug 9, 2019
CISA KEVMar 7, 2022+940 d
TodayOct 24, 2026+2633 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope