XSRF vulnerability in the Mail Page plugin

We have identified and fixed a cross-site request forgery XSRF vulnerability which may affect Confluence instances in a public environment. The XSRF vulnerability is exposed in the Confluence Mail Page plugin. Note that the Mail Page plugin is disabled by default. If you do not have this plugin...

Property for enabling/disabling viewage of Jira administrators

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-22096. panel As of JRA-21004, it also happened that the Administrator page does not show the administrators anymore. This patch is enables...

Property for enabling/disabling viewage of Jira administrators

As of JRA-21004, it also happened that the Administrator page does not show the administrators anymore. This patch is enables through one property in jira-atlassian.properties, and it resolves severall problems. We would prefer that there is a property like jira.administrators.show=true/false,...

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...

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...

Pluggable CAPTCHA

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-21359. panel CAPTCHA should be pluggable in JIRA CAPTCHA|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA is supposed to stop spam and other automated...

The system paths are to be locked down to the JIRA Home directory

Currently JIRA allows you to change system file paths at runtime. While convenient, this allowed an attacker to elevate his/her stolen system admin access into a situation where he/her can execute arbitrary code. A decision has been made to remove the ability to set the paths at run time. For new...

XSS in page renderer

An XSS vulnerability has been identified in the page renderer. This issue provides a fix for this problem. The severity of this issue is rated HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for other security related issues as well as more information on how we rate issues...

Only strings are encoded

The XML encoder only encodes strings. This could make Confluence return non encoded content. This issue is rated HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for more security related issue and more information on how we rate issues...

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...

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 Bookmark vulnerabilities

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

The current CAPTCHA implementation may not be secure

The current CAPTCHA implementation displays a different message if the CAPTCHA is being displayed and the captcha is entered correctly but the password for the user is not, than if the CAPTCHA is entered incorrectly. This is giving away more information than a login screen should. The error messa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Remove database passwords from the file system.

Currently if you connect Jira to an external database, you must store the database credentials on the file system either in the server.xml file Jira standalone, or in an equivalent file. This has security implications. Can we modify the application to not store this information on the file system...

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 when moving page between spaces

You can create a space with HTML in the name. In most places this space name is correctly encoded however in the tree component given when you chose to move a page the destination space is name is not encoded properly. To reproduce. 1 Create a space called alert"Howdy"; 2 Create a page in another...

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 ...

Email notifications for jiraissues macro reflect page owner permissions rather than permissions of notified user...

When a notification is sent out for a page that includes the \jiraissues\ macro, the list of issues is based on the page owner's permissions rather than the notified user's permissions. Here are the steps to reproduce: Set up the trust relationship between your JIRA and Confluence installs Create...

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 ...

XSS in pagetree plugin

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

Pages that inherit page restrictions are not respecting those restrictions after upgrade to Confluence 2.9

Tested and verified in both customer enviornment and in test enviornment. In the event that you have a parent page restriction and a child page that inherits that restriction, upon upgrade, 2.9 will only respect the explicit parent permission in terms of security trims and actual access but not...

Do not release details about securrity vulnerabilities until after the fix was available for a reasonable period of time

It is an unfortunate practice at Atlassian to as a part of release notes release all the information, often including example exploits|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-9350, about security vulnerabilities that were fixed in the version being released. This gives us great headaches because: w...

SSO credentials not used in IssueViewURLHandler

A customer has created a SSO plugin and are facing some specific issues in this context. When they click on the printable link of an issue i.e: http://jira/lodh/si/jira.issueviews:issue-html/ORGJIRA-13/ORGJIRA-13.html they get an error page indicating "the user myuser... doesn't exist..." They...

Manage Watchers shows users with no permission

We have just upgraded to Jira 3.12.2 and like the new functionality when adding watchers to an issue. There is one problem with this though. It is showing all users, including users with no permissions. This means that all employees that stopped working here will show in the drop down. We do not...

Implement login using google Authentication

We are a small company , and we are using Google for mail , calender etc ... For now we are using open ldap to authenticate users for our Jira But we would like to have a sort of SSO , using google users and password It will be great to be able to configure Jira , to check the users password...

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 ...

It's possible to browse project names when using Issue Security Scheme.

A customer user is set up and only allowed to see "External" issues. - The user is added as project role "Customers" in project "X". - The project got Issue Security Scheme "Customers". Internal / External When logging in as the customer user, you can only see the External issues within this...

Change issue Security Level on Transition

We need a way to automatically change the Security Level of an issue when it is transitioned. Currently our project is has a default Security Level that only allows the assignee and management to see an issue, we would like to automatically open that issue up once it is fixed...

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:...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in 500page.jsp

The test successfully embedded a script in the response, which will be executed once the page is loaded in the user's browser. This means that the application is vulnerable to the Cross-Site Scripting attack. The file 500page.jsp should escape the attributes and parameters to prevent code...

Multi user custom field cannot be used with the assignable user permission

If a multi user custom field is added to JIRA, and the custom field is added to the Assignable User permission, the Assign Issue operation breaks, when trying to gather the list of assignable Users. This is basically because our MultiUserCF is not specific enough and relies to much on the...

Option to disable "secure" cookie when using HTTPS just for login page

Confluence's "remember me" tickbox doesn't work if the login page is secure, but the rest of the application is unsecured. Seraph's CookieUtils.setCookie method create a secure cookie ref|http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.htmlpage-7 if the request had a secure URL, and this cookie isn't sent b...

It is possible to see components without logging in

It is possible to see project's components without logging in by just guessing urls, e.g. jira-installation/browse/KEY/component/10881. This will show all the information written on component issues are not shown. This should be restricted so that it is impossible to see any project information...

XSS vulnerability at "Edit Space Permissions"

Description: XSS vulnerability at "Edit Space Permissions" page Exploit: Write to the "Grant permission to" field: "alertdocument.cookie"...

XSS vulnerability in app/pages/listpages-alphaview.action

Description: XSS via the "startsWith" field in pages/listpages-alphaview.action. Exploit: noformathttp://app/pages/listpages-alphaview.action?key=&startsWith=xss:alertdocument.cookienoformat...

People Directory search can be misused to retrieve email addresses of all users

Even when email addresses should be hidden because of global settings, it is possible to retrieve email addresses of all the users in the system by misusing search in people directory. It seems that the email address is one of the attributes that are being indexed by the search engine. So if one...

Permissions at field level

I would like to be able to limit what users roles are able to modify individual fields. For example, I only want to allow particular people project managers to be able to select a fix version in an issue. However, it seems that any user who can edit an issue, including the reporter, can set the...

publically available usernames are a security risk

The login username of users is revealed all over the place in URLs that link to user profile, or user's list of assigned open bugs etc. This seems to be a big security risk, because you have given away half of the user identification to strangers. Anybody can look up a user in the issue tracker a...

Injection fast-uri Dependency in Jira Service Management Data Center

This High severity Injection vulnerability was introduced in versions 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.1, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, and 11.3.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center. This Injection vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of...

File Inclusion postcss Dependency in Crowd Data Center

This High severity File Inclusion vulnerability was introduced in versions 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, and 7.2.0 of Crowd Data Center. This File Inclusion vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker t...

DoS (Denial of Service) io.netty:netty-codec-http Dependency in Bamboo Data Center

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability was introduced in versions 10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 11.0.1, 12.0.0, and 12.1.0 of Bamboo Data Center. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.7 and a CVSS Vector of...

DoS (Denial of Service) io.micrometer:micrometer-core Dependency in Confluence Data Center

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability was introduced in versions 10.1.0 and 10.2.0 of Confluence Data Center. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to...