CVE-2026-42044

_*This is a vulnerability in a non-Atlassian Jira Software dependency. Atlassian's application of this dependency presents a lower, non-critical assessed risk.*_ This Critical severity Injection vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.17.2, 10.3.12, 11.2.1, and 11.3.0 of Jira Software Data Center. This Injection vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 9.1 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify the actions taken by a system call which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, no impact to availability, and requires no user interaction. Atlassian recommends that Jira Software Data Center customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: * Jira Software Data Center 11.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 11.3.7 * Jira Software Data Center 10.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.3.22 See the release notes ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives]). You can download the latest version of Jira Software Data Center from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives]). The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.0.0 to before 1.15.2, he Axios library is vulnerable to a Prototype Pollution "Gadget" attack that allows any Object.prototype pollution in the application's dependency tree to be escalated into surgical, invisible modification of all JSON API responses — including privilege escalation, balance manipulation, and authorization bypass. The default transformResponse function at lib/defaults/index.js:124 calls JSON.parse(data, this.parseReviver), where this is the merged config object. Because parseReviver is not present in Axios defaults, not validated by assertOptions, and not subject to any constraints, a polluted Object.prototype.parseReviver function is called for every key-value pair in every JSON response, allowing the attacker to selectively modify individual values while leaving the rest of the response intact. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

EPSS 0.59% · 45.4th percentile