CVE-2021-31597

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.020 · 81 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.04% (81st) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

29 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The xmlhttprequest-ssl package before 1.6.1 for Node.js disables SSL certificate validation by default, because rejectUnauthorized (when the property exists but is undefined) is considered to be false within the https.request function of Node.js. In other words, no certificate is ever rejected.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.4

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.4criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.5

v3.19.4criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Lsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.19.4criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Lsecondary · OSV

v3.18.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-295USprimaryCWE-295USCWE-295US

affected products (29)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Atlassian Bamboo <10.2.18all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Bamboo <12.1.6all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket <10.2.2all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket <9.4.19all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence <10.2.10all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence <9.2.19all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Jira <10.3.19all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Jira <11.3.4all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Jira Service Management <10.3.19all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Jira Service Management <11.3.4all versionscert_bundDE
IBM App Connect Enterpriseall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:app_connect_enterprise:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.21.17all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift:container_platform_release_4.21.17
Atlassian Bamboo< 10.2.18cert_bundDE
Atlassian Bamboo< 12.1.6cert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket< 10.2.2cert_bundDE
Atlassian Bitbucket< 9.4.19cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 10.2.10cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 9.2.19cert_bundDE

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-1229Atlassian Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-04-21csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Atlassian Bamboo, Atlassian Bitbucket, Atlassian Confluence und Atlassian Jira ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Daten zu manipulieren oder offenzulegen oder Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriffe durchzuführen.
GHSA-72mh-269x-7mh5Improper Certificate Validation in xmlhttprequest-ssl2021-05-24ghsa · osvUS
The xmlhttprequest-ssl package before 1.6.1 for Node.js disables SSL certificate validation by default, because rejectUnauthorized (when the property exists but is undefined) is considered to be false within the https.request function of Node.js. In other words, no certificate is ever rejected.

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-04-23modified 2026-08-04

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