Can force a Java heap space OOME when passing a high startIndex value in the URL

h4. Steps to reproduce Start Confluence 5.2.3 Navigating to the following URL: http:///dosearchsite.action?queryString=1&startIndex=268435455 or some other high startIndex value The browser will spin, and logs will eventually display an out-of-memory error code 2013-09-18 17:13:19,808 ERROR...

OAuth Administration screen is visible to anonymous users

If anonymous user access is enabled under "Global Permission", user can access to "OAuth Administration" page without the need to log-in. Here is the URL to the page: /plugins/servlet/oauth/view-consumer-info This page display Confluence administrators menu on the sidebar and other information su...

Custom Seraph Authenticators broken in Confluence 5.0

The constructor signature of com.atlassian.confluence.event.events.security.LoginEvent changed between Confluence 4.3.x and 5.0 - an additional String parameter was added to the constructor. From this: code public LoginEventObject src, String username, String sessionId, String remoteHost, String...

Security enhancement: do not allow POST parameters to be used in GETs

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-32076. panel My company's security team ran a vulnerability scan against our JIRA and found this issue. They advised me to bring it to your...

BuildEdgeIndexServlet XSRF

The BuildEdgeIndexServlet is responsible for rebuilding the edge index. As this is a servlet and not a Webwork action, XSRF checks must be implemented programmatically. The Servlet does not currently implement any XSRF token checks, meaning the edge index can be forced to be rebuilt when attacked...

Webwork direct method invocation can bypass validatingStack through Action aliases

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-27294. panel WebWork supports the concept of action aliases, which allow a single action class to serve requests mapping to...

The application should return caching directives instructing browsers not to store local copies of any sensitive data.

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-29625. panel We want to control the server's caching directives from within individual scripts. We have identified following locations, wher...

Potential remote code execution due to embedding of old django-piston

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-46819. panel The exposed atlassian api for forummodules found under forummodules/atlassian/api uses an outdated version of...

deletion of a comment with a security setting sends a notification to all watchers and the history tab

As a non-atlassian developer, I saw a deletion notification for a comment that I was restricted from viewing. That seems like a security leak. It would be annoying if we're trying to hide discussion from certain users for them to see that the discussion is happening at all, it would raise questio...

Direct access to issue via url discloses structure without authentication

If an issue is accessed via the direct url an error message discloses if the issue is existent or not - even when the use isn't logged-in. In contrast, an existing issue redirects to the login form. This knowledge may open an attack vector on private Jira instances that require authentication...

Better error message when viewing an embedded calendar as an unprivileged user

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51101. panel On our site's dashboard I have a calendar macro defined as:...

Support web sudo and other password confirmation features with custom authenticators

By default, web sudo and other password confirmation features in Confluence 3.5 and later are disabled if a custom authenticator is detected. However, there is an override flag that was added as part of CONF-20958 that allows administrators to turn it on again. If it is turned on manually, in mos...

"Forgot Password" feature should not reveal that a given username exists within Confluence for security reason

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-22388. panel It is possible to see which user exists on Confluence or not from within "Forgot Password" link. This is bad for...

XSS vulnerability in Contributors macro

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence \contributors macro. An attacker might take advantage of the vulnerability to steal other users' session cookies or other credentials, by sending the credentials back to such an attacker's own web server. An...

Remove the download link for XML site backups

Currently Confluence allows easy download of XML site backups. This could be considered a security risk. This issue introduces a flag in the Confluencecfg.xml that allows system administrators to turn this feature on or off. By default it is off meaning that the link will not be displayed. The fl...

The current CAPTCHA implementation may not be secure

The current CAPTCHA implementation displays a different message if the CAPTCHA is being displayed and the captcha is entered correctly but the password for the user is not, than if the CAPTCHA is entered incorrectly. This is giving away more information than a login screen should. The error messa...

Miscellaneous support-related JSPs contain XSS holes

JIRA contains a number of support related JSPs that have been added over the years. They were mostly for fighting spam and other support related tasks. Unfortunately none of these were ever tested very much and contain a lot of XSS holes. They are: groupnames.jsp indexbrowser.jsp...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure options for user authentication. One candidate is two-factor authentication using the RFC 4226 OATH/HOTP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP standard. This requires the user...

JQL breaks issue security levels based on custom fields

The MultiSelectCustomFieldIndexer does 2 things: index but don't store a case-folded version in the field "customfield10017:retail" store a "raw" version in a new field with the raw added to the end "customfield10017raw:Retail" The problem is that com.atlassian.jira.security.type.GroupCF looks fo...

CAPTCHA Option Should Exist for The Password Reset Form

The password reset prompt allows an individual to reset any user's password. My company uses a standard employee id to use for the JIRA username. With little knowledge, I designed a script that can cycle through employee id numbers and submit them to the reset password form. This process can repe...

Include XSS security warning on HTML macro description in Wiki Markup Renderer

Include XSS security warning on HTML macro description in Wiki Markup Renderer. Derived from JRA-19802...

SSL for login page only does not work in Confluence 3.1

URL rewrite does not work for Confluence 3.1. We follow the documentation: http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=158106208 This works only in Confluence 2.10 but not 3.1...

Logout is not working on QA-EAC

Select 'Log Out' from the user menu. Note that you haven't been logged out...

Encrypted passwords in osuser.xml

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-17317. panel We need to set a crypted password instead plain text password in java.naming.security.credentials within osuser.xml...

The i18n in velocity templates does not auto html encode parameters

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-15548. panel All the getText methods on com.atlassian.confluence.util.i18n.DefaultI18NBean are anontated as HtmlSafe which means...

Repository Security improvement - the default for creating a new repository should be restricted to admins until specifically configured.

I just noticed that when setting up repositories, they were created with 'default' which mean if public sign up was on, they were able to see the repos. For the sake of security, a fresh install should default to restricting access to admins, perhaps through a default-created group 'admins'. Anon...

Stored XSS in wiki macro search

Creating a page/comment etc with the following wiki-markup macro will render javascript on the page for anybody visiting this page search:query=alertdocument.cookie IMPORTANT: please confirm receipt of this notification! Depending on the response, we may report the vulnerability to publicly...

Security Vulnerability in xwork, need to update to fixed version

see http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-003 confluence currently using v1.0.3. 1.0.x branch was not yet patched so we cannot upgrade straight away. Don B is working on releasing the fix...

Manage Watchers shows users with no permission

We have just upgraded to Jira 3.12.2 and like the new functionality when adding watchers to an issue. There is one problem with this though. It is showing all users, including users with no permissions. This means that all employees that stopped working here will show in the drop down. We do not...

XSS vulnerabilities in create space action

The following URL's are vulnerable: - spaces/createspace-start.action - spaces/createspace.action on key and name parameters...

XSS vulnerabilities in create/edit/copy page and blogpost actions

The following create/edit page URL's are vulnerable: - /pages/createpage.action - /pages/docreatepage.action - /pages/editpage.action - /pages/doeditepage.action on parentPageString, mode, labelsString, captchaId The following create/edit blogpost URL's are vulnerable: -...

XSS vulnerabilities in create/edit/copy page and blogpost actions

The following create/edit page URL's are vulnerable: - /pages/createpage.action - /pages/docreatepage.action - /pages/editpage.action - /pages/doeditepage.action on parentPageString, mode, labelsString, captchaId The following create/edit blogpost URL's are vulnerable: -...

XSS vulnerability in recently updated and configure RSS feed actions

Our eSecurity team has identified a Cross Site Scripting issue with the confluence server as follows: Arbirtatry javascript can be injected in the following cases which can lead to escalated or invalid privileges being granted to an unauthorized user: 1...

Implement user lockout mechanism to stop bruteforce login attacks

Hacker can try as many time he wants to login JIRA. You can build client, which sends username+password combinations as many time as you like. .. and if you have username, it is much easier to get in. ---- Implementation ideas: 1 Lock user after sequential X incorrect logins - X can be set by...

Need ability to limit use of remote API to certain users, or a certain group

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-7913. panel The remote API presents opportunities for denial of service attack. For example: RemoveSpace for a space with many...

Deleting user does not remove the user from a permission scheme

If a single user is added to a permission in a permission scheme, deleting this user will not remove him/her from the permission scheme. This results in stack traces in the logs such as: noformat 2007-02-14 14:10:57,882 WARN atlassian.jira.scheme.AbstractSchemeManager 'fred' is not a valid user...

Obscure email addresses in Confluence Mail

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-2677. panel Just noticed that http://confluence.atlassian.com/spaces/viewmailarchive.action?key=DOC is showing my full email...

Add a generic HTML cleaning service

This will be able to be used by all components that need to display untrusted HTML: including HTML attachments, RSS feeds, and the html-include macro...

Covert timing channel vulnerability at Bouncy Castle dependency at Crucible Server

This High severity Covert timing channel vulnerability was introduced in version 4.9.0 of Crucible Server. Atlassian recommends that Crucible Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: Crucible Da...

File Inclusion node-tar Dependency in Confluence Data Center

This High severity File Inclusion vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.3, 9.1.0, 9.2.5, 9.5.1, 10.1.2, and 10.2.0 of Confluence Data Center. This File Inclusion vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.2 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N allows a...

Path Traversal (Arbitrary Write) node-tar Dependency in Confluence Data Center

This High severity Path Traversal vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.3, 9.1.0, 9.2.5, 9.5.1, 10.1.2, and 10.2.0 of Confluence Data Center. This Path Traversal vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.8 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L allows a...

File Inclusion node-tar Dependency in Jira Software Data Center

This High severity File Inclusion vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.15.2, 9.16.0, 9.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.1, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, and 11.3.1 of Jira Software Data Center. This File Inclusion vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.2 and a CVS...

mXSS (mutation Cross-Site Scripting) dompurify Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This is a vulnerability in a non-Atlassian Jira dependency. Atlassian's application of this dependency presents a lower, non-critical assessed risk. This Critical severity nesting-based mXSS mutation Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was introduced in version 10.3.0 of Jira Software Data Center...

XXE (XML External Entity Injection) Tika Dependency Vulnerability in Crucible Server and Fisheye Server

This Crucible Server and Fisheye Server release includes updates to our Apache Tika dependency in response to CVE-2025-66516. Our security team has assessed that the current scope of this CVE does not present the same critical risk in our products, as our use of the dependency doesn’t support the...

DoS (Denial of Service) net.minidev:json-smart Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity net.minidev:json-smart Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.12.4, 9.13.0, 9.14.0, 9.15.2, 9.16.0, 9.17.0, 10.0.0, 10.1.1, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, and 10.5.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server. This net.minidev:json-smart Dependency vulnerability, with a CV...

DoS (Denial of Service) net.minidev:json-smart Dependency in Bamboo Data Center and Server

This High severity net.minidev:json-smart Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.6.0, 10.0.0-rc5, 10.1.0, and 10.2.0 of Bamboo Data Center and Server. This net.minidev:json-smart Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of...

DoS (Denial of Service) com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream Dependency in Bitbucket Data Center and Server

This High severity com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.6.0, 8.7.0, 8.8.0, 8.9.0, 8.10.0, 8.11.0, 8.12.0, 8.13.0, 8.14.0, 8.15.0, 8.16.0, 8.17.0, 8.18.0, 8.19.0, 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.0, and 9.4.0 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server. This...

DoS (Denial of Service) org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote Dependency in Crowd Data Center and Server

This High severity org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, and 6.0.0 of Crowd Data Center and Server. This org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of...

Script execution via PDF as attachment - CVE-2021-39111

The attachment as PDF is a vulnerable PDFJS library. To confirm the vulnerability, we uploaded a PDF file containing a JavaScript. After opening a preview of the PDF file, the console displayed the message "Hello, xss is working," indicating that the JavaScript code had been successfully executed...

The "Your Jira Issues" section on the Bitbucket dashboard is fetching images via the internal Application URL rather than the external Display URL

h3. Issue Summary This is reproducible on Data Center: yes h3. Steps to Reproduce Create an Application link to Jira Instance with different "Application" and 'Display URLs' !image-2024-05-14-18-13-31-601.png|thumbnail! Block the 'Application URL' access on the client system browser using...