Authenticated privilege escalation via unchecked subtask permissions
Published May 20, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026
Authorization bypass in Atlassian Jira Core and Jira Service Management affected releases allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges. The Print and Export Word paths include restricted subtasks' titles and links when exporting a visible parent issue without enforcing each subtask's view permission. Any user able to export the parent can learn otherwise hidden subtask metadata, while Atlassian has not disclosed additional higher-privilege actions.
Summary
What happened
Authorization bypass in Atlassian Jira Core and Jira Service Management affected releases allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges. The Print and Export Word paths include restricted subtasks' titles and links when exporting a visible parent issue without enforcing each subtask's view permission. Any user able to export the parent can learn otherwise hidden subtask metadata, while Atlassian has not disclosed additional higher-privilege actions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-22157
- Published
- May 20, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Atlassian
- Product
- Jira Service Management Server
- Classifications
- CWE-284, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 20, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.12.0 to 5.12.19
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