DoS (Denial of Service) org.codehaus.jettison:jettison Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity org.codehaus.jettison:jettison Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.20.0, 8.22.0, 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.0, 9.4.0, 9.5.0, 9.6.0, 9.7.0, and 9.8.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server.

This org.codehaus.jettison:jettison Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Jira Software 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:

||Affected versions||Fixed versions||
|9.8.0 to 9.8.2|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.9.0|
|9.7.0 to 9.7.2|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.9.0|
|9.6.0|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.9.0|
|9.5.0 to 9.5.1|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.9.0|
|9.4.0 to 9.4.15 LTS|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.4.16 LTS or 9.9.0|
|9.3.0 to 9.3.3|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.4.16 LTS or 9.9.0|
|9.2.0 to 9.2.1|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.4.16 LTS or 9.9.0|
|9.1.0 to 9.1.1|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.4.16 LTS or 9.9.0|
|9.0.0|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.4.16 LTS or 9.9.0|
|Any earlier versions|9.12.5 LTS Recommended or 9.4.16 LTS or 9.9.0|

See the release notes ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives]). You can download the latest version of Jira Software Data Center and Server from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives]).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Those using Jettison to parse untrusted XML or JSON data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by Out of memory. This effect may support a denial of service attack.