Accidental XSRF and DoS consumption-of-space issue

We experienced an unusual growth of our nonspaced attachments that appears to be a DoS vunerability both in an accidental way with a workaround and intentional not easily worked around. This is under Confluence 4.0, but appears to probably apply to 4.3.1 as well. It appears the growing nonspaced...

Accidental XSRF and DoS consumption-of-space issue

We experienced an unusual growth of our nonspaced attachments that appears to be a DoS vunerability both in an accidental way with a workaround and intentional not easily worked around. This is under Confluence 4.0, but appears to probably apply to 4.3.1 as well. It appears the growing nonspaced...

XSS vulnerability in chart saving

Create a new dashboard with the name alert"XSS" 2. Go to the issue navigator and perform a search 3. Choose Views - charts - Save to dashboard This is because portal.name is unescaped in savetodashboard.vm. Tested in OnDemand and BTF...

Reflected XSS within the username parameter of the /user/non-system/{username} rest resource

The confluence-rest-plugin has a rest resource to look up "non-system" users which takes in a username. If given username supplied is not found then it is included in an xml error message without being xml encoded and thus is a XSS vector. That is, and other such xml special characters are not...

Inherit Edit Restrictions for Child Pages

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-26446. panel As it said in Documentation for Page Restrictions|https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions:...

XSS (reflected) in rankVMID parameter of GetRankPage.jspa

As per https://sdog.jira.com/browse/JSTDEV-2110 Targets:...

Javascript escape the value of "dark features" within the javascript context they are rendered out in

Current user specific dark feature values are not javascript escaped in the javascript context they exist in. e.g. the value "' + evalalert1 ' +" without the double quotes appears like the following in the feature javascript context: / Dark features are features that can enabled and disabled per...

AddConsumerReciprocalServlet Open Redirect

The AddConsumerReciprocalServlet servlet has an open redirect vulnerability in the doGet method that will allow phishers to lure users away from legitimate JIRA hosted sites. An open redirect vulnerability is caused by an attacker having control over a request parameter that hasn’t been validated...

Bamboo XML Vulnerability

We have identified and fixed a vulnerability in Bamboo that results from the way third-party XML parsers are used in Bamboo. This vulnerability allows an attacker to: Execute denial of service attacks against the Bamboo server, and Read all local files readable to the system user under which Bamb...

Provide an abstract Seraph authenticator for SSO authenticators to subclass that reduces the plumbing code required to interact with Embedded Crowd

This is currently the most comprehensive version I have so far compiled of the code a custom SSO authenticator for Seraph must provide in order to not break any of the functionality in Confluence: https://bitbucket.org/jaysee00/example-confluence-sso-authenticator. It would be great if we could...

Cross Site Request Forgery - Deleting User's Dashboards

Security auditing tests performed on a Jira Bug Issue and Project Tracking Software locally running instance shown that the application is succeptible to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks within this URL:...

Members of confluence-administrators group can browse to restricted pages

Expected behaviour is that a Confluence admin can view a page restricted to others by hitting the URL directly to help resolve any permission issues. In 3.5.x the admins can also browse to these pages via Browse Pages...

Members of confluence-administrators group can browse to restricted pages

Expected behaviour is that a Confluence admin can view a page restricted to others by hitting the URL directly to help resolve any permission issues. In 3.5.x the admins can also browse to these pages via Browse Pages...

Password History Count does not work for ATLASSIAN-SECURITY directories

Testing this locally on Crowd 227, I set the password history count to 1, then tried resetting my password through the interface and through 'Forgot Password' e-mail link, but was able to consistent use old passwords. I also expired the password, forcing a password change, but that also let me...

Admin JSPs don't have XSRF protection

As well as a number of XSS bugs which were recently fixed in CONF-22568, the JSPs contained in Confluence don't support the same XSRF protection which our actions use. We should convert this functionality over to actions and only use JSPs to deliver patches to customers, not for proper...

Make captcha harder, or allow configuration of captcha difficulty, in order to prevent sophisticated spam attacks

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-22700. panel Every day we get a load of automated anonymous comment spam on our confluence pages. It seems that the captcha is t...

Members of confluence-administrators receive notifications for comments and attachments on restricted pages

Members of the special confluence-administrators group have access to all content on the site, however they should not see restricted content in search results or get notifications about changes on restricted pages. There is a bug in the permission check for notifications about "contained" object...

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

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...

XSS vulnerability in Recently Updated macro

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence recently-updated 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...

Allow anonymous/public access at page level

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-20737. panel Although a space might be restricted to some groups/users, it is sometimes required to allow public/anonymous acce...

Confluence should not allow configuration of Office Connector temporary storage location

Earlier versions of Confluence allow the administrator to set the temporary storage location for the View File macro, part of the Office Connector. Provided an attacker has gained administrative access to the system in some way, they could then exploit this vulnerability to save malicious files...

websudo annotation backwards compatibility (Confluence 3.3)

Following this guide|http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=219021702, I started to use the websudo annotations to secure an XWork action that would process a form in the space admin tab. The plugin is meant to work with Confluence 3.3 and I haven't released a public version...

Replace unsafe text gadget and add to JIRA Cloud

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-21965. panel panel:title=Atlassian Update - 23 April 2015|borderStyle=solid|borderColor=ebf2f9|titleBGColor=ebf2f9|bgColor=ffffff Hi everyon...

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...

Anonymise config files in support zip

Files included in the generated zip file could contain private information. This issue addresses that by removing all sensitive information before creating the zip. The severity of this issue is HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for other security related issues and...

Not all error strings are encoded

A XSS vulnerability where a string could bypass the Anti-XSS mechanism has been identified. This issue corrects this problem. The severity of this issue is rated as LOW. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for information on other security related issues and our rating system...

Possible XSS injection in attachment upload

A XSS vulnerability has been identified in attachment upload. The severity of this issue has been rated HIGH. Please refer to the security advisory at http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for information on how we rate issues...

JIRA is vulnerable to clickjacking attacks

A clickjacking attack on JIRA would most likely take the form of a third-party site, containing an invisible iframe on top of an unrelated page. The iframe would contain a page in JIRA. The victim would believe he was clicking on the other site but would actually be clicking in JIRA and performin...

XSS Bookmark vulnerabilities

The Add bookmark page is vulnerable to XSS attacks...

500page.jsp contains HTTP Header XSS vulnerability

The 500page.jsp contains an XSS vulnerability via the 'Referrer' HTTP header...

Announcement Preview banner is a vector for an XSS attack

The announcement preview banner is currently displayed via the global decorator. It can be used for an XSS attack on virtually every page, via the announcementpreviewbannerst URL parameter. We should display the preview only locally in the admin section...

Privilege escalation vulnerability when administrator access is compromised

panel:borderColor=ff0000|borderStyle=solid|bgColor=ffccccNote: 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 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 -...

Signing in with username with different case creates new user

We currently utilize LDAP for our user repository and allow users to be automatically added to crucible if they can successfully authenticate. We have recently received complaints from users that their names were showing up two times in reviews. After some analysis we saw that there were 2...

Allow non-Administrators to be able to modify workflows

As an IT Manager, by having to add users to the Administrators group in order to edit and manage workflows is prohibitive to the administration and security of our Jira environment. While I want users to create, manage and edit workflows, I do NOT want them creating or modifying accounts which...

deleted page is still accessible in Confluence when accessing via viewpage.action?pageId in the url

Deleted pages can still be accessed in Confluence when one enters their pageId in the url. For example: noformat http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=196837485 http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Office+Connector noformat The links above are referring to the sam...

XSS in header for Personal Spaces

Create a user with username "alert'hahahaha' User creates a personal space Try to add a page to the personal space This is caused by code code However since the personal space doesn't work too well with usernames with crazy letters, I don't think its a Blocker...

"User Custom Field Value" permission type incorrectly exposes JIRA project names to everyone

Problem: Project names are shown to users with no permission to see the project. Impact: Security hole! Recipe: it helps to have two browsers open one logged in as admin the other as the user I will create called dummy Add user dummy Add project blah Add custom field myuser of type user picker,...

XSS vulnerability can be exploited with the Userlister macro

Use the following markup: noformatuserlister:groups=alert'Vulerable'noformat Whenever the page is viewed, the script will be executed...

Uploading large fonts for PDF export fails with XSRF error

When uploading souizhs.ttf font that we use due to its comprehensive UTF8 support, I'm getting XSRF validation error: quote Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page. quote I tried...

XSS in user links

A user with username "alert"foo" that is linked to via \username markup results in script being executed. Curiously, viewing the space homepage of that user results in a blank page. This of course is prevented for public signup, but if the user gets created via other means, i.e. external user...

Encrypted passwords in osuser.xml

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 Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-15548. panel All the getText methods on com.atlassian.confluence.util.i18n.DefaultI18NBean are anontated as HtmlSafe which mean...

Shared Filter properties exposed without authentication

Some URLs are not protected by authentication which could expose some properties in JIRA that users may not wish to reveal. Example 1: Searching filters http://support.atlassian.com/secure/ManageFilters.jspa?filterView=search Example 2: Viewing properties of filters. I can see custom fields, sear...

Bright Cove User Macro-Cross-site script

Our e-security found the following error after they scanned the Bright Cove User Macro: Number System/Location Defect Type Status R4 Bright Cove User Macro Client-side Attacks: Cross-site Scripting Open Description Security Risk: It is possible to steal or manipulate customer session and cookies,...

Reporting Plugin- Cross-site scripting error

Our e-security found the following error for the Reporting plugin: Number System/Location Defect Type Status R2 Reporting Plugin Client-side Attacks: Cross-site Scripting Open Description Security Risk: It is possible to steal or manipulate customer session and cookies, which may be used to...

Vulnerable and pointless password storage on client computers

Given the following: -http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Cookies, which says "a one-way hash of the user's password" is stored in a browser cookie on the user's computer. -CSP-29692 case I opened with Atlassian support, which explained that EncryptionUtils.java is used to...

JIRA build information not included in dummy XML responses to search filter requests which users do not have access to

The build-info element is missing from the response to search filter XML requests. noformat https://support.atlassian.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/10593/SearchRequest-10593.xml?tempMax=100 noformat Happens if the user does not have access to the filter. See also...

Redirect that works in 2.9 is broken in later Confluence versions

Adding a .jsp containing the following code will work in 2.9, but produces an exception in 2.10 when a parameter such as osdestination is supplied: code code Example URL: http://localhost:8080/confluence/login2.jsp?osdestination=%2Fdashboard.action Typical exception: quote...