CVE-2022-0540
A vulnerability in Jira Seraph allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication by sending a specially crafted HTTP…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 88.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A vulnerability in Jira Seraph allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication by sending a specially crafted HTTP request. This affects Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center versions before 8.13.18, versions 8.14.0 and later before 8.20.6, and versions 8.21.0 and later before 8.22.0. This also affects Atlassian Jira Service Management Server and Data Center versions before 4.13.18, versions 4.14.0 and later before 4.20.6, and versions 4.21.0 and later before 4.22.0.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it.
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Nuclei templates1 template
- Atlassian Jira Seraph - Authentication Bypass (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-0540.yamlSeverity critical
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By atlassian
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 88.1% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 8.13.18
- affected 8.14.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 8.20.6
- affected 8.21.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 8.22.0
Atlassian · Jira Software Server
- affected unspecified – < 8.13.18
- affected 8.14.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 8.20.6
- affected 8.21.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 8.22.0
Atlassian · Jira Software Data Center
- affected unspecified – < 8.13.18
- affected 8.14.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 8.20.6
- affected 8.21.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 8.22.0
Atlassian · Jira Service Management Server
- affected unspecified – < 4.13.18
- affected 4.14.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 4.20.6
- affected 4.21.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 4.22.0
Atlassian · Jira Service Management Data Center
- affected unspecified – < 4.13.18
- affected 4.14.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 4.20.6
- affected 4.21.0 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 4.22.0
References
References3
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Jira+Security+Advisory+2022-04-20 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-73650 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDSERVER-11224 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-15662 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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