2021-37551 | JetBrains YouTrack inadequate encryption

By Max On Aug 10, 2021

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A vulnerability was found in JetBrains YouTrack. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak encryption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-326. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In JetBrains YouTrack before 2021.2.16363, system user passwords were hashed with SHA-256.

The weakness was released 08/07/2021. The advisory is shared for download at blog.jetbrains.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2021-37551 since 07/26/2021. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Access to the local network is required for this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2021.2.16363 eliminates this vulnerability.

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