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...

Information disclosure in REST API

REST endpoints to search groups and to list issue resolutions allow anonymous/unauthenticated access. The former allows to enumerate all groups on a JIRA instance by sending multiple queries as results are limited by jira.ajax.autocomplete.limit. We've verified this on an instance without any...

The JIRA/Crowd applications fail to properly sanitize user input in the query string of the website or in the value of a parameter

We need to avoid Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities. A function should be created to provide server side and client side input validation where applicable. Special characters should be stripped out during the validation process. The following special characters should be stripped out if...

As a JIRA System Administrator, I can instruct web browsers to not allow saving a user's password in the various login options, so that unauthorized users can not access the system.

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-29447. panel In some organisations, as part of a set of security requirements, it is required for compliant applications, to disallow users ...

Persistent Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

We have identified and fixed a persistent cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities that affects Stash instances, including publicly available instances that is, Internet-facing servers. XSS vulnerabilities allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Stash page. More information is...

Persistent xss flaw in the revision history (of comments).

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-47387. panel Whilst a comment is html encoded /sanitized when displayed within an answer to a question the revision history page...

Persistent xss flaw in the revision history (of comments).

Whilst a comment is html encoded /sanitized when displayed within an answer to a question the revision history page for an edited comment does not sanitize or html encode the content of the current and previous comments. Therefore an attacker can exploit this issue to craft a persistent xss attac...

XSS vulnerability in the "import word document" page action through the page name

On the "import word document" page action the name of the confluence page is a persistent xss vector as it is not encoded. How to Reproduce: 1. Create a confluence page with the following title noformat XSS"/alert'XSS' noformat 2. Navigate to the created page 3. Under the tools menu select "Impor...

ValidationHash generation should use random.SystemRandom instead of random class

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-47146. panel ValidationHash generation should use random.SystemRandom instead of the random.Random class when generating a rand...

persistent xss through flash swf file attachment download

It is possible to upload a flash swf file which when the attachment 'download' url is visited the flash swf file is executed in the browser and as such can use ExternalInterface.call method to inject javascript defined in the swf file into the browser...

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...

ConsumerConfigurationServlet Open Redirect

The ConsumerConfigurationServlet 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...

restructureattachments.jsp Triggering off a Restructure job lacks an XSRF token

In restructureattachments.jsp Triggering off a Restructure job does not require a csrf token. To trigger it just send a POST to the page with the following post data: 'action:Restructure'. When fixing this issue, please ensure that the JSP is converted to an action or deleted - we don't want to...

Disable browser password save on Admin page in Firefox

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-25008. panel In Chrome, Safari and IE there is no browser prompt to store the password but on Firefox both Mac and Windows I get...

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:...

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:...

Visual clues to native vs. ldap users and groups

In a mixed environment with Confluence and LDAP users and groups, it would be helpful when administering users and groups to see if they belong in LDAP or Confluence. Perhaps different color icons...

JIRA FishEye plugin not working - Error handling trusted applications authentication attempt: BAD_SIGNATURE

This bug effects you if: you are running JIRA 4.4+ and FishEye 2.6.0-2.6.3 you have Trusted Applications authenticating the link between your JIRA and FishEye servers If you attempt to configure or use the JIRA FishEye plugin, you may see errors in the UI and log messages like this in JIRA:...

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...

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:...

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:...

Ability to perform a bulk random password reset for users per project

Would like to have the ability to perform a bulk password reset on user accounts for any particular JIRA project. Have recently received a request from a customer to perform this operation on their project. I did raise a support call JSP-73240 and was recommended to raise a New Feature Request...

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 Pagetree macro

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

Security Vulnerability in Confluence Remote API

We have identified and fixed a vulnerability in the Remote API which affects Confluence instances, including publicly available instances. The Remote API|http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+the+Remote+API allows an attacker to escalate user privileges, excluding the level of syst...

Intermittent Session Lost During Add/Edit Page in Firefox

We customized Seraph to integrate with our SSO Server. Seraph will perform session validation through cookies. When using firefox, we found that in 1 out of 5 to 8 times when we edit a page or add a new page, we will lose our session and be directed back to the login page. This does not happen in...

Patches for XSS / XSRF vulnerabilities

We have identified and fixed vulnerabilities in JIRA 4.2 which will allow an attacker to invoke XSS Cross Site Scripting attacks and/or Cross Site Request Forgery XSRF attacks. Full details of the severity, risks and vulnerabilities can be found in the JIRA Security Advisory...

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...

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...

Secure Administrator Sessions feature can be bypassed

In some circumstances an attacker may be able to craft a request to a Confluence server that bypasses the additional layer of security added by the new Secure Administrator Sessions feature introduced in Confluence 3.3. This would allow an attacker to perform administrative functions on Confluenc...

NullPointerException when there are no cookies and AccessLogRequestInfo is enabled

When using the filter-list and project-list plugins I ran into an issue where NullPointerExceptions were being thrown. I turned out the issue is in AccessLogRequestInfo when the Cookie header doesn't exists. The line that causes the exception is a log.debug line. I am including a patch that check...

sudo is decorated with global decorator

The reasoning behind preventing theme developers from theming the admin areas was because if you don't know what you are doing then you can mess things up to such an extent that you are unable to use confluence. By decorating the sudo login pages using the global decorator it exposes the user to...

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 in mailpage plugin

XSS vulnerability has been reported against the mailpage plugin. It allows an attacker to execute arbitrary javascript. A new version of the issue has been released that fixes this problem...

500page.jsp Improvements

Some further improvements to the 500page.jsp: The following should not appear if there is no stack trace: quote Cause Stack Trace:hide quote \ \ Stack trace should not appear if the user triggering the page is anonymous user Changes to this sentence below: quote"Your Confluence administrator can...

SOAP and XML-RPC APIs return too much information

The SOAP and XML-RPC APIs return more information than is needed. This issue corrects that problem. This issue is rated HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for more security related issues and information on how we rate our issues...

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...

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...

XSS vulnerability in Colour Scheme settings

An XSS vulnerability has been discovered in the Colour Scheme settings. The severity of this issue is rated as HIGH. Please refer to the security advisory http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Advisory+2010-04-x for details...

XSS Bookmark vulnerabilities

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

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...

Group picker popup JSP has XSS hole if group names are XSS shaped

If a group name has a XSS shaped name, then the group picker will allow scripts to be executed...

issuelinkssmall.jsp has an XSS hole via the URL used to access it

The issuelinkssmall.jsp has an XSS hole, where if the URL contains an XSS string, the ww:url tag will include that tag in the page because the value attribute was left empty...

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...

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...

Custom fileds inconsistently escaped in view and edit screens

Steps to replicate: Create a custom field and name it Hithere On view issue screens, the field appears as Hithere On edit issue screen, the field appears as Hithere on red font I guess we need to make a decision on which one is the desired functionality allow HTML or not and make it consistent...