The OGNL extensive expression evaluation capability in this package as used in Atlassian Fisheye, Crucible, and possibly other products, uses a permissive allowlist, which allows remote attackers to modify server-side context objects and bypass the "#" protection mechanism in ParameterInterceptors via the #context, #_memberAccess, #root, #this, #_typeResolver, #_classResolver, #_traceEvaluations, #_lastEvaluation, #_keepLastEvaluation, and possibly other OGNL context variables, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6504.
The password hash generation algorithm in this package performs a transformation that reduces the size of the set of inputs to SHA-1, which produces a small search space that makes it easier for local and possibly remote attackers to crack passwords by generating hash collisions, related to password substitution.