CVE-2019-11580: Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Atlassian
Product: Crowd and Crowd Data Center
Added to the catalog: 2021-11-03
Due date for US federal agencies: 2022-05-03
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center contain a remote code execution vulnerability resulting from a pdkinstall development plugin being incorrectly enabled in release builds.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Ransomware use: CISA marks this vulnerability as known to be used in ransomware campaigns. CISA does not say which group used it.

Links in CISA's notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11580

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2019-06-03T14:29:00.217
Last modified: 2026-06-17T02:13:11.973
Weaknesses: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center had the pdkinstall development plugin incorrectly enabled in release builds. Attackers who can send unauthenticated or authenticated requests to a Crowd or Crowd Data Center instance can exploit this vulnerability to install arbitrary plugins, which permits remote code execution on systems running a vulnerable version of Crowd or Crowd Data Center. All versions of Crowd from version 2.1.0 before 3.0.5 (the fixed version for 3.0.x), from version 3.1.0 before 3.1.6 (the fixed version for 3.1.x), from version 3.2.0 before 3.2.8 (the fixed version for 3.2.x), from version 3.3.0 before 3.3.5 (the fixed version for 3.3.x), and from version 3.4.0 before 3.4.4 (the fixed version for 3.4.x) are affected by this vulnerability.

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	9.8	CRITICAL	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	[email protected] (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	9.8	CRITICAL	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	7.5	HIGH	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	[email protected] (Primary)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163810/Atlassian-Crowd-pdkinstall-Remote-Code-Execution.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108637 (Broken Link)
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5388 (Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163810/Atlassian-Crowd-pdkinstall-Remote-Code-Execution.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108637 (Broken Link)
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5388 (Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-11580 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner: atlassian
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2019-06-03T13:43:48.001Z
Updated: 2025-10-21T23:45:35.696Z
Problem types: Leftover Debug Code

References

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5388
108637
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163810/Atlassian-Crowd-pdkinstall-Remote-Code-Execution.html

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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2019-11580: Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center Remote Code Execution Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-0d003c5237b6, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2019-11580 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T02:13:11.973.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2025-10-21T23:45:35.696Z.

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