Applink configuration data is exposed anonymously

If you make an anonymous GET request to /rest/issueLinkAppLink/1/appLink/info , the instance will tell you all the names, IDs and URLs of the applinks configured on the instance. e.g. an anonymous request to https://jira.atlassian.com/rest/issueLinkAppLink/1/appLink/info returns code:javascript...

prevent crashing when running out of database connections

One common total crash for Confluence is when it does run out of database connection. Any reliable web application should be able to resist to a peak in number of request and not to fully crash when this happens. This is also a security issue because it means that anyone could easily bring the...

Open redirect on Bamboo login page, only when configured for HTTPS connections

If Bamboo is configured for HTTPS connections, then the following happens. It does not occur when Bamboo is configured as HTTP:// Description Bamboo has an open redirect on the login page which allows redirection to external sites. The osdestination parameter on the userlogin page and other pages...

Confluence OnDemand dashboard - popular tab - user is shown links to pages they are restricted from viewing

Children of restricted pages do not get hidden from users who do not have permission to see the parent. Steps to reproduce: Create an unrestricted page. Create a child page, also unrestricted. Create a second user. Confirm the user can see the two new pages in their dashboard. Restrict viewing of...

JSON-RPC API allows anonymous content rendering

The renderContent method can be used by anonymous users, leaking information, and allowing macro execution. Should the entire JSON-RPC be inaccessible to anonymous users if anonymous users can't use confluence?...

Confluence Administrator Can Add Himself to System Administrator Group

I have found what I believe to be a security bug in Confluence that should be fixed. We have System Administrator function from the Confluence Administrator Group, and created a new Group called System Administrators see attachment. The purpose was to give our Tech Writers the ability to access t...

Secure Mail Archive with Space Permissions

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-31945. panel Mail Archives in a Space are currently not subject to any Read / View security context Permissions. They are visibl...

JIRA Workflow Step Property jira.permission.browse allows you to view issues in issue navigator

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-35917. panel h3. Summary The JIRA Workflow Step Property jira.permission.browse does not prevent you to view issues in issue navigator. h3...

LDAP and Active Directory credentials are stored in plain text in database

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-31605. panel This information should be encrypted so that anyone with access to the database does not gain access to other syste...

User or Group Page Security

Option to give user or group access to a particular page with a selectable option on the particular page rather than having to go through all other pages individually and restricting access there as this gets incredibly difficult to manage. Maybe have a dedicated security overview page like the...

XSS in reorder panel

To reproduce: 1. Open a confluence instance in Firefox. 2. Create a space with key "TEST". 3. Create a page in that space called "alert0". 4. Create two pages with the page from step 3 as their parent. 5. Go to: code:none base...

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...

XSS vulnerability in the Office Powerpoint macro (Office Connector)

To reproduce: 1. Attach a ".ppt" file to the page. any file with that extension - doesn't need to be a powerpoint file 2. Add "Office Powerpoint" macro with Slide Number as: code "alertdocument.domain code 3. View page. See officeconnector, PptConverter.java, line...

Restricted Work Log entries show in the Activity Stream in JIRA Server

h3. Summary When using a group comment visibility on worklogs the restriction is not applied in the Activity Stream. h3. Steps to Reproduce Set up a test user JIRA Users. Enable comment visibility to support groups as per Configuring JIRA...

Reflected XSS in JIRA Admin Panel (Delete User)

The 'name' param in jira-components/jira-webapp/src/main/webapp/secure/admin/user/views/deleteuserconfirm.jsp is not sanitised, enabling arbitrary html/script execution. A url to demonstrate this issue is:...

Disallow multiple sessions for an account

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-33586. panel It is currently possible to run several sessions under any account. Some customers prefer to restrict the number of sessions to...

Passwords of configured SMTP mail accounts are stored in cleartext

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-29534. panel Passwords for configured mail accounts are stored in clear text in the database as can be seen e.g. by: code SELECT...

Editing "Global Templates" possible without admin login

If you are logged in to the admin panel you get the following line: quoteYou have temporary access to administrative functions. Drop access if you no longer require it. For more information, refer to the documentation.quote Pressing "Drop access" redirects you to the normal Wiki page, away from t...

Not being able to create webhooks with basic authentication.

Using the procedures to use basic auth described on https://extranet.atlassian.com/display/SUPPORT/Webhooks+readiness+for+JIRA+5.2 we are getting a "Invalid URL" message. !https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/attachment/85015/webhookserror.png! workaround For Atlassian applications, the REST plugin ...

CreateSupportZipAction directory traversal

There’s a directory traversal vulnerability in the CreateSupportZipAction action that allows a malicious user to include arbitrary log files into a support zip. This is because the SupportUtility object is marked as @ParameterSafe, and no validation is performed on its serverLogsDirectory path...

JIRA REST API makes it easy to harvest email addresses

The JIRA REST API makes it easy to harvest email addresses as an anonymous user. 1. Go to https://jira.atlassian.com/browseJRA-22053 as anonymous. Note that you can't extract email addresses from this page unless the user has used an email address as her username. 2. Now go to...

XSS vulnerability in Office Connector plugin

From: OFFCONN-81: Using "office excel"-macro as part of viewfile, which is part of office connector plugin seems to open up the possibility to get injected with XSS-code. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create an excel-file with following content in one cell: code '"alert'XSS' code 2. Attach this file to ...

User can upload attachments to restricted pages that adopt restrictions from parent page

Users that should have no access to restricted pages that adopt restrictions from the parent page are able to upload attachments if they know the page ID. How to reproduce: 1. Create 2 users, user1 and user2 2. Create a page with user1 and set the page view and edit restrictions to "Me" 3. Create...

The "user" Dark Features page is vulnerable to XSRF/csrf

The "User Dark Features" page located at $host/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?selectedTab=jira.user.profile.panels:up-darkfeatures-panel allows users to add dark features which only affect themselves. However, it is not protected against XSRF attacks. Note: the 'value' of dark features is not properly...

admin/fixcwdmemberships.jsp lacks an XSRF token to run the repair action.

admin/fixcwdmemberships.jsp does not require a csrf token to run the repair action. When fixing this issue, please ensure that the JSP is converted to an action or deleted - we don't want to have to maintain our XSRF infrastructure in JSPs...

Do not show registered users in quick search to anonymous users

Registered users appears in quick search, even when it's a search made by anonymous...

Issue key can be enumerated - Resolve Issue Feature

Security auditing tests performed on a Jira Bug Issue and Project Tracking Software locally running instance shown that the application is succeptible to horizontal privilege elevation attacks within the Resolve Issue feature, accessible through the given address:...

Permission Checking Bug in FishEye Changeset Tooltips

We have identified and fixed a permission checking bug in the FishEye changeset tooltips. Affected versions are 2.4.6 to 2.5.6 This bug allows users to view metadata for a changesets that they do not have permission to view. This issue is reported in our security advisory on the following page:...

Secure Section Macro

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-23637. panel This is a suggestion to create a new Macro/Plugin that worked similar to the Column Macro with the major difference...

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

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

Enable X-FRAME-Options header to implement clickjacking protection

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-25143. panel TLDR: Add X-FRAME-Options: SAMEORIGIN to all HTTPS pages server config, and test that nothing breaks. --- Description: Current...

Enable X-FRAME-Options header to implement clickjacking protection

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-25143. panel TLDR: Add X-FRAME-Options: SAMEORIGIN to all HTTPS pages server config, and test that nothing breaks. --- Description: Current...

XSS vulnerability in login.action

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence login action. XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Confluence page. You can read more about XSS attacks at various places on the web, including these:...

Cache Crowd Authentication on the client side

Jira is very chatty with Crowd, see: https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CWDSUP-4148 One request is sent to crowd per request into jira. Something like: com.atlassian.crowd.integration.service.cache.CacheAwareAuthenticationManager should be used. We have a similar issue with Confluence...

Add warning to Shared Dashboards explaining consequence of 'everyone'

In JRA-22207, a warning was added to the "Shared Filters" page explaining what "Everyone" actually means. The "Shared Dashboards" screen also needs this warning. Please also search in the code for anywhere else this permissions-setting control is used...

Basic auth authentication does not allow files to be attached in 4.2

From the customer support case quote When using osauthType=basic to login to JIRA 4.2 a user is able to upload an attachment as a temporary file, but is unable to attach the temporary file to the issue. We noticed the exact same behavior ... had worked with JIRA 4.1.2. quote The Atlassian support...

XSS vulnerability in Bookmarks macro

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence bookmarks macro. XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Confluence page. You can read more about XSS attacks at various places on the web, including these:...

Confluence features that require password confirmation (websudo, captcha) do not work with custom authentication

When user is required to confirm the password, Confluence always checks the entered password against the internally stored user/password. If an instance is configured to use custom authentication which is different from atlassian-user, the password validation will fail. h3. Resolution This is fix...

XSS vulnerability in space key, particularly with decorators off

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-20865. panel As discovered while looking at CONF-20667, Confluence stores the space key unencoded in a content tag. Considerable...

Potential attack vector using attachments

Suspicious handling of attachment uploads with filenames containing quotes the quoted ended up being repeated and semicolons semicolon and all subsequent characters were stripped from filename...

XSS vulnerability in the Office Connector

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability which may affect Confluence instances in a public environment. The XSS vulnerability is exposed in the document import function of the Confluence Office Connector. An attacker might take advantage of the vulnerability to steal...

Path traversal vulnerability in various Confluence actions

We have identified and fixed a path traversal vulnerability in various Confluence actions. By exploiting a path traversal vulnerability, attackers can retrieve any file on the server that is running Confluence, based on the permissions of the user under which Confluence is running. Path traversal...

Replace unsafe text gadget and add to JIRA Cloud

panel:title=Atlassian Update - 23 April 2015|borderStyle=solid|borderColor=ebf2f9|titleBGColor=ebf2f9|bgColor=ffffff Hi everyone, There is an add-on from Atlassian Labs that provides a rich text dashboard gadget for JIRA Cloud. You can find it by searching for "rich text gadget" in the Find New...

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...

XSS in page renderer

An XSS vulnerability has been identified in the page renderer. This issue provides a fix for this problem. The severity of this issue is rated HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for other security related issues as well as more information on how we rate issues...

Path for daily backup is configurable through WEB UI

It is possible to set the daily backup path and partial name through the web UI. This could mean that information can be obtained by a rouge admin. This issue addresses that by introducing a flag so concerned administrators can remove this feature. This flag is set to false by default meaning it ...

XSS Vulnerabilities in JIRA

panel:borderColor=ff0000|borderStyle=solid|bgColor=ffccccWarning: This issue is superceded by JRA-21004. Please install the patches on that issue, rather than this one. For more details, see JIRA Security Advisory -...

xss vulnerability in issuelinksmall.jsp

Thanks to NASA / JPL for discovering this: Cross-Site Scripting XSS related to http://oursite/jira/includes/snippets/issuelinksmall.jsp?%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22XSS%22%29%3C/script%3E=has...

Confluence adminsistrators can still view a restricted page if the type in the URL or click on a link in an email

If I set page viewing restrictions on a wki page to one group of which I am a member, other users, including confluence adminsistrators, cannot see the page when navigating within the application. If they type in the URL of the restricted page or click on a link to the restricted page, then can...

autocomplete box in page restrictions finds deleted users, wrong usernames

We recently migrated our user management from JIRA to Crowd, our Confluence instance used to link to JIRA for authentication, and now links to Crowd. We now found that, when editing the restrictions on individual pages, the autocomplete feature in that dialog acts strange: Users that have been...