Malicious File Upload

The application server accepted a vbscript file, an HTML file containing JavaScript, and the EICAR test virus as allowed attachments. This means that an attacker could submit a malicious file to the backend, where the file might be launched by another internal RIM employee if they click and open...

XSS vulnerability in some JSPs under admin section

Several JSPs found under the admin section of Confluence have been found to be vulnerable to XSS attacks. This issue corrects those problems. This issue is rated HIGH. Please refer to http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for information on other security related issues and more information on...

Require user to answer CAPTCHA after three failed attempts

Require user to answer CAPTCHA after three failed attempts. For SOAP and XMLRPC this means that the user will have to open a browser to answer the CAPTCHA, similar to how google does it. This issue has been rated MODERATE. Please refer to http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for details on oth...

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...

brute force password attack protection by default

We have added an upgrade task to set jira.maximum.authentication.attempts.allowed=5 on all instances even if they previous had set it to something else. This is to ensure that systems are more safe by default...

brute force password attack protection by default

We have added an upgrade task to set jira.maximum.authentication.attempts.allowed=5 on all instances even if they previous had set it to something else. This is to ensure that systems are more safe by default...

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panel:borderColor=ff0000|borderStyle=solid|bgColor=ffccccWarning: This issue is superceded by JRA-21004.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 -...

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...

Randomised password not sent in email

When creating a user with password normally, the notification email to that new user will contain the password. However creating a new user and leave the password blank, JIRA randomly generates a password for that user, but the randomised password "is not sent" in the notification email to that...

User's Full Name is an XSS vector in Status Updates tab of User Profile

A user's full name is an XSS vector when viewing the "Status Updates" tab of the user profile. 1 Set a user's Full Name as "alertdocument.cookie". 2 Log out. 3 If anonymous access is disabled, log in as a different user, otherwise, continue as Anonymous. 4 Go to the profile page for the user...

Workflow permission to limit ability to link issues

We need to be able to limit the ability to link issues by the issue status. If we have two issues, and they are both closed, I do not want to be able to link them. If one or both are opened or in progress, I'd like to be able to create the link from the open issue. We are trying to use Jira for...

XSS vulnerability in space name when page move would create a duplicate

Create a space called alert"XSS"; Find a page named 'Home' in a different space Move this page, choosing the previously created space as the destination The move will fail due to the duplicate page name, and the script will be run...

Jiraissues add icon mapping configuration is susceptible to XSS

Combined with XSRF susceptibility via CONF-15753; you can craft an attack to get elevated privileges in Confluence. !http://img.skitch.com/20090520-x5gug8e8q5snabtmm2i2kdx1p.jpg!...

Encrypted passwords in osuser.xml

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-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 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...

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...

Password is being logged for 500 errors

The user passwords are being exposed in the log files when a 500 error happens. The following Jira solved the problem for the information displayed in the user Browser: http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12360...

Seraph binary dosn't correspond to source distribution for JIRA 3.13.2

Try to stepover getUserHttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response Also, if user is not resolved by session, why not to try resolve it from cookie...

XSS in the Widget Connector

I've been working with the widget connector today and reading through the code when I noticed that the media uris are not being handled securely. try this: widget:url=youtube.com/v="alert'xss' In general there is not a unified way to prevent issues like this in the widget extensions and it is up ...

Session must not be invalidated on logout

People ran into problems|http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?forumID=101&threadID=29965 because we started invalidating the session on logout in 2.9.2. They expect certain session attributes like the seraph LOGGEDOUTKEY to be present. This means we need to remove all session attributes except...

Inserted image filenames are not escaped properly as thumbnails

When you insert an image as a thumbnail into a wiki page, the generated HTML does not properly escape the filename...

Inserted image filenames are not escaped properly as thumbnails

When you insert an image as a thumbnail into a wiki page, the generated HTML does not properly escape the filename...

Restrict access to page history to certain users (or groups)

A customer requested for a new feature to restrict access to page history only to a particular group or certain users...

It's possible to execute a workflow action without being logged in.

To reproduce, open Jira in two browser windows. In the first, navigate to an issue with an available workflow action. In the second, log out. In the first, perform one of the workflow actions. You'll see a page asking you to log back in, but the action has still been performed. To see this, in th...

It's possible to execute a workflow action without being logged in.

To reproduce, open Jira in two browser windows. In the first, navigate to an issue with an available workflow action. In the second, log out. In the first, perform one of the workflow actions. You'll see a page asking you to log back in, but the action has still been performed. To see this, in th...

XSS in pagetree plugin

The pagetree plugin is vulnerable for XSS injecting the code in the treeId field. Example below:...

Hidden pages' content can be viewed without permission using diffpages.action

If the id of a page is known by a user, that user can view the content of the page without having permissions to the space it is in. They need only construct the right URL. EG: Two spaces A and B Page with id 1 is in Space A Page with id 2 is in Space B User cannot see Space A User can see Space ...

Hidden pages' content can be viewed without permission using copypage.action

If the id of a page is known by a user, that user can view the content of the page without having permissions to the space it is in. They need only construct the right URL. EG: Two spaces A and B Page with id 1 is in Space A User cannot see Space A User can see Space B The following URL will allo...

SSO credentials not used in IssueViewURLHandler

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-15048. panel A customer has created a SSO plugin and are facing some specific issues in this context. When they click on the printable link o...

Some users' logins are not remembered using Tomcat

When using Confluence, and Tomcat 5.5.26 or Tomcat 6 some users may find that their logins are not remembered. This is because of a bug in Tomcat's cookie handling. This is logged against the Atlassian Seraph library used by Confluence as SER-117. SER-117 has been fixed, so we "just" need to use ...

XSS vulnerability in social bookmarking plugin bundled in Confluence

The social bookmarking plugin is bundled in Confluence 2.7.x and Confluence 2.6.x. As such this vulnerability affects all 2.7.x and 2.6.x instances even if you do not use the plugin or do not have the Add Bookmark Web Item enabled. The updatebookmark.action URL is vulnerable on these parameters: ...

XSS vulnerabilities in insert image and link actions

In 2.7.x, the following URL's are vulnerable: - /users/insertlink.action - /users/insertlink-page-attachmentstab.action - /users/insertlink-page-uploadfile.action - /users/insertlink-draft-attachmentstab.action - /users/insertlink-draft-uploadfile.action - /users/doinsertimageinpage.action -...

Watchers can see comments that they are not supposed to see via email notifications

We have email notifications switched on for our live version of JIRA. If you watch an issue then you receive an email each time somebody comments on that issue. This email contains information about the issue including the comment that was added. This is great as it allows people to keep up to da...

username not validated in add user to favourites action

Entering a bogus username here has the unwanted side effect of adding a bogus entity to your user favourites that can't be removed...

username not validated in add user to favourites action

Entering a bogus username here has the unwanted side effect of adding a bogus entity to your user favourites that can't be removed...

ClassCastException reported when stopping JIRA

When stopping tomcat wich hosts only Jira, there is always such stack trace in tomcat logs: code 2008-02-18 19:25:32,767: ERROR Thread-33 - org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.Catalina.localhost./jira.release - ApplicationFilterConfig.doAsPrivilege java.lang.ClassCastException:...

Seperate label permissions from edit issue permission

In 3.11 the labels plugin changed so that manipulating labels required the "Edit Issue" permission. This drastically impacted our organizations workflow, as we'd just introduced labels in our previous upgrade, and we don't give "edit issues" to all users, but we do want all authenticated users to...

Project name that contains double-quote is not properly escaped on Issue Navigator page

If a project has a double-quote in its name, it's not xml-escaped when used in "title" attribute. For example, if we have a project named 14" monitors, the html will look like: 14" monitors This causes JIRA Client to hiccup on this page and lose a lot of functionality. On web browser, the title i...

Different IE browser windows have different sessions and different session timeout timing

One of our user reported the following: ---- I discovered the reason why JIRA sometimes closes my IE session, it depends on the way you login: 1 When you login via navigation to your home page http://support/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa all is ok, multiple JIRA sessions never expire. 2 When you log...

Moving a subtask Issue Type will sometimes ask the user for a Security Level even though this value is inherited from the Parent Issue.

When you move a subtask from an Issue Type where Security Level is a hidden field, to one where Security Level is no longer hidden, the system can mistakenly ask the User for a new Security Level. This is only a minor issue, as then the subtask will not actually take on the chosen value - it will...

You are able to delete a Custom Field that is referenced in Permission settings.

If you add a User Custom Field as a permission in a permission scheme or issue level security scheme, you are then able to delete the Custom Field without validation or warnings. After deleting the field, you are still able to see the Custom Field ID in the permission scheme, although it can...

Issues not shown in issue navigator that a user has permission for according to the issue security level

Users may not be able to see certain issues in the IssueNavigator, if they create an issue level security, where the permission depends on a user custom field where the customfield does not have a searcher set. Browsing the issue directly, works fine, however when running a search the issue wont ...

Issues not shown in issue navigator that a user has permission for according to the issue security level

Users may not be able to see certain issues in the IssueNavigator, if they create an issue level security, where the permission depends on a user custom field where the customfield does not have a searcher set. Browsing the issue directly, works fine, however when running a search the issue wont ...

Username upper case are not being restricted in some pages

Username must be created in lowercase in JIRA. At the moment, JIRA allows the username with the lowercase or uppercase letter in Login and Add Watcher pages. It should restrict the case-sensitive when the username is request from the login page or convert it to lower case. JIRA should have this...

Move velocity templates and other web resources into WEB-INF in the Confluence webapp

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-9730. panel It presents a small information leak, and is just tidier if we put all the internal stuff into WEB-INF...

Move velocity templates and other web resources into WEB-INF in the Confluence webapp

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-9730. panel It presents a small information leak, and is just tidier if we put all the internal stuff into WEB-INF...

user value of JiraAuthenticationContext not set is SOAP service getIssue()

Call to JiraAuthenticationContext.setUser missing during getIssue SOAP service call. Service call will fail silently if there are custom fields with explicit secutity checking for attributes derived from current user. In my case I try to verify existance of an issue using getIssue SOAP service...