Web Sudo should be able to be subverted for non browsers (eg scripts) via a HTTP header

We do this for XSRF protection. Basically you should be able to subvert the web sudo mechanism via a HTTP header. This posts shows the use case https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/1273/jira-jelly-runner-via-cron-in-v4-3-4 I believe it just as secure since web sudo is really design to stop som...

logout.action is not protected against XSRF

This is a duplicate of CONF-21758. Please only resolve this ticket when CONF-21758 is fixed...

Permission checking bug in Crucible Review Tooltips

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

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...

XSS vulnerability in doeditmysettings.action

This vulnerability affects all versions from 3.5 and above. We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Confluence settings editing action. XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Confluence page. You can read more...

"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...

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...

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...

Admin menu items displayed to non-admins when accessing "Global Templates" page

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-21562. panel When accessing the "Global Templates" menu as a non-admin, the navigation controls for the administration panel are...

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 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:...

adding "Project Member" to User/Group/Projectrole options list for security level

I'm looking for a fast and easy way to handle security viewability of issues over all projects. Scenario is: We have setup the Jira company environment and several different projects. We have some external developers that are assinged to their specific projects. I did not yet use the security...

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...

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...

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...

Allow to specify which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-21127. panel This is an improvement request to allow specifying which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA. Proposed...

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,...

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...

restrict the access to JIRA for specific pairs "user account - host"

to be able to restrict the access to JIRA for specific pairs "user account - host" also to provide: 1. specify checkbox user account - "any host" 2. specify multiple hosts for one user account 3. to use Windows AD containers such distribution groups and computer groups in tool of the coding of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

XSS vulnerability in Clickr theme

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Changing system locale means users with non-ASCII characters in their passwords cannot authenticate

The OSUser and Atlassian-User authenticators used by Confluence convert a password into bytes before hashing it. This conversion doesn't specify which encoding should be used, so the system's default encoding is used. If the system administrator changes the locale settings on the server or change...

Include XSS security warning on HTML macro description in Wiki Markup Renderer

Include XSS security warning on HTML macro description in Wiki Markup Renderer. Derived from JRA-19802...

SSL for login page only does not work in Confluence 3.1

URL rewrite does not work for Confluence 3.1. We follow the documentation: http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=158106208 This works only in Confluence 2.10 but not 3.1...

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...

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...

Watchers can be added to a project without having rights in that project

A user of Jira at our site has found that two people he added to watchers on this project were only members of the Jira Users group and had no rights in the project. Therefore Jira silently did not send any notifications and they did not receive the information that the original user thought they...

Upgrade to the latest version of Seraph and Trusted Applications library

Andreas needs to make some improvements to trusted-application behaviour for Gadgets. In order to do this, we need to first get onto the latest version of Seraph where Trusted Applications is split out into a separate library. Also, the new version of Seraph uses a version of oscore library|SER-1...

Viewfile macros do not respect page restrictions

Add a page Set viewing restrictions to user1 only Add an attachment - 'Sample.doc' Log in as user2 - confirm that you cannot see the restricted page Add a page, and use the viewfile macro Enter the location of the attachment on the restricted page The contents of the attachment can now be viewed ...

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...

Prevent global settings from being accidentally overwritten

On a number of occasions, upgrading Extranet has triggered some kind of bug that has caused the global settings to be reset to their default values. The most obvious cause of this is that some piece of code has created a new Settings object and saved it through the settings manager. One way to...

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...

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...

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...

Word import with Office Connector can overwrite existing content without permission

It's possible under a specific set of circumstances that a user could perform actions they may otherwise be unauthorized to perform using the document import feature of the Office Connector. The specific actions would be editing or deleting a page they don't have permission to change. Note that...

Confluence displays ALL attachments when the following URL is viewed

i removed the space key from the URL for the normal space attachment viewing, and it displays all the attachments for all spaces in the install of Confluence, Irrispecitve of space and page level permission restrictions. For Example:...