Improve the default SSL cipherset in standalone JIRA setup

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-27681. panel We are concerned about 'SSL Weak Cipher Suites Supported' and 'SSL Medium Strength Cipher Suites Suppored'. Any suggestions wou...

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...

LogToServer action lets anyone log messages to the server log

Available without authentication. This can be used to hide breakin attempts or fill the disk if no log rotation is in place...

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:...

XSS vulnerability in /admin/chooseBuildsToMove.action resource

We have identified and fixed a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Bamboo chooseBuildsToMove resource. This issue is reported in our security advisory on this page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/rQP5FQ You can read more about XSS attacks at:...

XSS vulnerability in /agent/configureAgents resource

We have identified and fixed a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Bamboo configureAgents resource. This issue is reported in our security advisory on this page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/rQP5FQ You can read more about XSS attacks at:...

Actions doeditpage,domovepage,docreatepage do not require XSRF token

When checking the application for security leaks, I found that the actions doeditpage, domovepage and docreatepage explicitly set the requireSecurityToken=false in the xwork.xml. This could be a possible leak in an attack scenario. Is there a reason, why these actions should not require the...

XSS Vulnerability in Administration Interface of JIRA Bamboo Plugin

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in JIRA administration interface. Affected version is JIRA 4.3.x XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a JIRA page. You can read more about XSS attacks at various places on the web...

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...

Enumeration of usernames possible in Jira

We found enumeration of usernames to be possible in Jira 4.3.4 despite the login failure message not revealing whether it was the username or password that was incorrect. After 3 failed login attempts a captcha appears only if the user exists, otherwise not. This allows an attacker to enumerate t...

HTML file type attachments are automatically rendered in IE.

h1. Steps to reproduce Create following HTML file and upload to any of Confluence page. code alert"Cookie: " + document.cookie; code Open the file on Internet Explorer 7. Then, you will see the javascript in that HTML file executed automatically. Issue happens with IE9,8,7 with Confluence 3.5...

HTML file type attachments are automatically rendered in IE.

h1. Steps to reproduce Create following HTML file and upload to any of Confluence page. code alert"Cookie: " + document.cookie; code Open the file on Internet Explorer 7. Then, you will see the javascript in that HTML file executed automatically. Issue happens with IE9,8,7 with Confluence 3.5...

When configured for Internal Database with LDAP for Authentication Only, Confluence does not check the LDAP when authenticating users

Configured Confluence to keep and manage users in its internal database, but to first try to use LDAP for authentication only, via the new interface. Debug output suggests Confluence is not bothering to check the LDAP at any point during the authentication process. More detail is available here:...

Searching within restricted pages/spaces

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-22074. panel This is the issue reference:...

Profile picture thumbnail generation can consume unlimited amount of memory

Discovered a Studio customer, you can upload a very large profile picture to expose the same problem as CONF-21480, just in a different area of the application. We should limit the size of images we're willing to load into memory to avoid this problem with user pictures...

XSRF token broken when you edit an Issue Type Scheme

If you click the Edit link beside the currently selected Issue Type Scheme on a Project Summary page and then click Save on the next screen you get an XSRF token missing error...

XSS vulnerability in the action links of Confluence's attachments lists.

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the action links of Confluence's attachments lists. All versions from 2.7 to 3.4.7 are affected. XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Confluence page. You can read more about...

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...

XSS vulnerability in Global Reports macro

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence global-reports 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:...

XSS vulnerability in Global Reports macro

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence global-reports 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:...

Increase the web session timeout from 60 minutes to 300 minutes

Usability and security testing have shown that XSRF time out is annoying people in the wild. The security guy Vitaly has ok'ed the limit to be increased. This has been done on trunk along with other changes and should be done on 4.3 branch as well...

XSS in filter.subscription.prefix.monthDay parameter of /secure/FilterSubscription.jspa

http://172.16.230.130:8080/secure/FilterSubscription.jspa?filter.subscription.prefix.interval=180&groupName=jira-users&filter.subscription.prefix.runFromMins=00&nextRun=&filter.subscription.prefix.runToMins=00&filter.subscription.prefix.runToMeridian=pm&filter.subscription.prefix.week=2&filter.su...

Non-secure content warning in IE8 on the Dashboards screen caused by the wiki renderer

Wiki renderer-generated contents e.g. in the activity stream include references to icons with http prefix that cause IE8 to generate security warnings for JIRA instances accessible via HTTPS. To reproduce it, have contents in the activity stream gadget contain icons included by the wiki renderer,...

XSS vulnerability in space key, particularly with decorators off

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-20865. panel As discovered while looking at CONF-20667, Confluence stores the space key unencoded in a content tag. Considerabl...

Can't set visibility on comment created via Activity Stream Gadget

I can't restrict the visibility of an comment created via the activity stream gadget. In our environment it is important for us to have this feature available everywhere where users are able to create comments on issues...

XSS vulnerability in Confluence Space Names

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Confluence Space Names. 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 attacker's te...

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...

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...

Enable Web Sudo to work with other single-sign-on solutions

Customers with some of the unsupported single sign-on solutions|http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Single+Sign-on+Integration+with+JIRA+and+Confluence can't easily upgrade to Confluence 3.3 because WebSudo doesn't handle external SSO solutions. See this example:...

Logout Button / Option Missing for some LDAP user accounts

Instance Details / Description: The logout option to kill sessions is not present for some user accounts i,e, the zzsvat01-05 test accounts. It is believed that this is caused by LDAP user accounts that don't have a first and / or last name present. For these specific rare instances i.e. probably...

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...