Atlassian JIRA: CVE-2025-24970: DoS (Denial of Service) io.netty:netty-handler Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

Description

This High severity Third-Party Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.11.3, 9.12.0, 9.13.0, 9.14.0, 9.15.2, 9.16.0, 9.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, and 10.5.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server. This Third-Party 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: * Jira Software Data Center and Server 9.12: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.12.20 * Jira Software Data Center and Server 10.3: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.3.5 * Jira Software Data Center and Server 10.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.6.0 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: Netty, an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework, has a vulnerability starting in version 4.1.91.Final and prior to version 4.1.118.Final. When a special crafted packet is received via SslHandler it doesn't correctly handle validation of such a packet in all cases which can lead to a native crash. Version 4.1.118.Final contains a patch. As workaround its possible to either disable the usage of the native SSLEngine or change the code manually.