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:...

XSS vulnerability in default 'internal server error' page

We have identified and fixed a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Bamboo default 'internal server error' page. 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 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...

GeneralUtil.htmlEscapeQuotes should be annotated HtmlSafe

The GeneralUtil.htmlEscapeQuotes method outputs HTML and thus should be annotated as @HtmlSafe. Not doing so causes its output to be double escaped when automatic escaping is enabled for the plugin/velocity template...

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

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...

XSS vulnerability in Crucible Author Mapping

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Crucible Author Mapping. Affected versions are Crucible 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 inclusive. XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a FishEye/Crucible page. You can read more about XSS...

XSS vulnerability in Crucible Author Mapping

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Crucible Author Mapping. Affected versions are Crucible 2.4.5 to 2.5.0 inclusive. XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a FishEye/Crucible page. You can read more about XSS...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Page view restriction is not inheriting to child pages in some spaces

When a new page is created using the create-page macro the child page does not have restrictions inherited. This is only happening for a few spaces. If I try the same macro in another space it will work fine. I have rebuilt the ancestors table but this issue is still happening. Please advise...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mail support request accepts any e-mail address

The SupportUtility allows the user to enter an arbitrary e-mail address to send a copy of the e-mail to. This issue removes the option for users to enter an e-mail address to CC. This issue also introduces a flag that prevents the TO address from being changed through the web interface. By defaul...

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...

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...

500page.jsp contains HTTP Header XSS vulnerability

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

screenshot-redirecter.jsp XSS attach via the afterURL parameter

The screenshot-redirector.jsp does note escape the 'afterURL' URL parameter correctly, leading to an XSS attack vector...

screenshot-redirecter.jsp XSS attach via the afterURL parameter

The screenshot-redirector.jsp does note escape the 'afterURL' URL parameter correctly, leading to an XSS attack vector...

runportleterror.jsp contains XSS hole

The runportleterror.jsp contains an XSS attach vector via the unescaped 'portletKey' URL parameter. The parameter should be escaped properly...

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 -...

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...

xss vulnerability in issuelinksmall.jsp

Thanks to NASA / JPL for discovering this: Cross-Site Scripting XSS related to http://oursite/jira/includes/snippets/issuelinksmall.jsp?%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22XSS%22%29%3C/script%3E=has...

A link to Re-Indexing is visible to users even if they are not sys admin

I saw this on EACJ where I am not a sys admin quote XXXX made configuration changes in section 'Custom Fields' at 01/Feb/10 1:16 PM. It is recommended that you perform a re-index. For more information, please click the Help icon. To perform the re-index now, please go to the 'Indexing' section...

Version number

I notice that the JIRA footer displays the current version of JIRA. Revealing the specifics of the revisions of software that you run in production is generally considered a bad security practice. Is there a reason that it is displayed openly to all users in licensed versions of the product? Is i...

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...

Confluence adminsistrators can still view a restricted page if the type in the URL or click on a link in an email

If I set page viewing restrictions on a wki page to one group of which I am a member, other users, including confluence adminsistrators, cannot see the page when navigating within the application. If they type in the URL of the restricted page or click on a link to the restricted page, then can...

autocomplete box in page restrictions finds deleted users, wrong usernames

We recently migrated our user management from JIRA to Crowd, our Confluence instance used to link to JIRA for authentication, and now links to Crowd. We now found that, when editing the restrictions on individual pages, the autocomplete feature in that dialog acts strange: Users that have been...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Logout is not working on QA-EAC

Select 'Log Out' from the user menu. Note that you haven't been logged out...

Add a password lockout feature

Confluence does not prevent someone from making a script that tries every possible password combination for a Confluence account. There should be an option to set a max attempts and then lock out the user from the system. This is obviously a security problem as Confluence within most companies us...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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!...

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...