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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...

CAPTCHA Option Should Exist for The Password Reset Form

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-20150. panel The password reset prompt allows an individual to reset any user's password. My company uses a standard employee id to use for t...

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...

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...

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...

admin gadget rest endpoint information leak

the admin rest endpoint can return admin-only information even if the end user is not an admin...

XSS vulnerability can be exploited on the WebDAV Configuration page

Steps: Go to WebDAV Configuration Enter 'alert"XSS"' Click on 'Add new regex' button The script will be executed. It will continue to be executed whenever a user clicks on the 'Save' button. This can be done by users in the confluence-admin group, so it could be used by them to gain access to...

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 ...

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...

Cache Plugin -Cross-site script error

Our e-security department found the error below after scanning the Cache Plugin: Number System/Location Defect Type Status R3 Cache 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 use...

Vulnerable and pointless password storage on client computers

Given the following: -http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Cookies, which says "a one-way hash of the user's password" is stored in a browser cookie on the user's computer. -CSP-29692 case I opened with Atlassian support, which explained that EncryptionUtils.java is used to...

Impropper sanitisation of attachment filenames allows header injection

An attacker can craft a specific attachment filename, or rename the file once it has been uploaded to introduce arbitrary headers into the response stream...

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...

Attachment list in popup doesn't escape filenames causing XSS hole

The filenames in the attachment list of the link popup aren't being escaped. If you upload an attachment with a filename including html it could be executed...

Restrict anonymous users from viewing user profiles.

Even if I start Confluence with -Dconfluence.disable.peopledirectory.anonymous=true, it is still possible to browse individual users by visiting a URL like https://wikiBaseUrl/display/accountName. This is a major security problem for us because it exposes: 1. The user's name 2. The user's ID 3. T...

Restrict access to page history to certain users (or groups)

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-13247. panel A customer requested for a new feature to restrict access to page history only to a particular group or certain use...

It's possible to execute a workflow action without being logged in.

To reproduce, open Jira in two browser windows. In the first, navigate to an issue with an available workflow action. In the second, log out. In the first, perform one of the workflow actions. You'll see a page asking you to log back in, but the action has still been performed. To see this, in th...

default config values restored

This should be for 2.9.1 - this version was not yet available under "affects versions" when filing this bug. After updating from 2.9 to 2.9.1, most of my settings were overwritten by their default values. - public signup got enabled - the language changed back to english instead of german - e-mai...

Confluence breaks SSO integration (PATCH)

A long time ago when I wrote our authenticator for wikis.sun.com, I noticed that under some circumstances our SSO server didn't redirect back to wikis.sun.com correctly. It redirected to a confluence URI without specifying the host and the domain, which resulted in the browser ending up on our SS...

Remember my password with LDAP

At the login screen, when we click on 'Remember my login on this computer' and login, everything works well. When we close the browser without logout, the login should be remember on this computer. When we try to get back into Jira, here's the bug that we have into our log file. 2008-04-22...

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...

Session isn't invalidated on logout

When the user logs out the HttpSession isn't invalidated. The important details of the logged in user and other information is correctly cleared but other properties such as user preferences are not. The impact is things like the label's section and location section's openness state isn't correct...

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:...

Trusted authentication doesn't work for Confluence users with uppercase usernames

Trying to use the trusted authentication feature of the Jiraissues macro doesn't work when a user's username is uppercase. JIRA shows the following in its log: quote 2008-01-23 13:59:48,104 INFO STDOUT 2008-01-23 13:59:48,104 ajp-0.0.0.0-6103-8 WARN atlassian.seraph.filter.TrustedApplicationsFilt...

Trusted authentication doesn't work for Confluence users with uppercase usernames

Trying to use the trusted authentication feature of the Jiraissues macro doesn't work when a user's username is uppercase. JIRA shows the following in its log: quote 2008-01-23 13:59:48,104 INFO STDOUT 2008-01-23 13:59:48,104 ajp-0.0.0.0-6103-8 WARN atlassian.seraph.filter.TrustedApplicationsFilt...

"Forgot password" function allows easy misuse

The "Forgot password" function invents a new password and sends it by email. This invites to misuse as guessing the userid already allows to annoy or even lock-out the legitimate account owner. The user may currently not have access to his email account or the mail could be killed by a spam filte...

Move velocity templates and other web resources into WEB-INF in the Confluence webapp

It presents a small information leak, and is just tidier if we put all the internal stuff into WEB-INF...

DWR debug mode is enabled

This gives a potential attacker lots of information about available AJAX request handlers in Confluence...

Recently updated links for users with personal spaces link to profile if personal space is not accessible

Users without the global access right for personal space can still see links to personal spaces in the "Recently updated" list on their dashboard. This is a serious security problem for extranets, when one wants to prevent non anonymous external users to see who's using the wiki. Note: this probl...

Security level for attachments and screenshots

Discussing inside the team issues reported to JIRA by customers, we can hide from them our in-team comments, but cannot do it to attachments and screen-shots...

XSS vulnerability in app/spaces/listattachmentforspace.action

Description: XSS via the "Filter By File Extension" field in app/spaces/listattachmentforspace.action. Exploit: blah"alertdocument.cookiex x="...

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...

Form submission doesn't check source

Confluence accepts form submissions from any source. This means if you are logged in to confluence and another site submits data to the confluence instance, then its accepted without question because the user is already logged in - or automatically logged in. We need a way to validate the form...

Make anonymiser more strict about the translation of values

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-12420. panel the anonymiser replaces letter and number characters in string values during xml backup. A more strict anonymiser would replace...

Don't send any notifications to disabled users

Once a user is disabled, they should not receive any notifications...

Don't send any notifications to disabled users

Once a user is disabled, they should not receive any notifications...

When deleting an Issue Security Level issues need to be re-indexed

Create 1 security levels Put some issues into it Delete the level hence removing any security level from the issues You will not be able to find the issues any more - need to re-index...

DoS (Denial of Service) glob-parent Dependency in Jira Software Data Center

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.15.2, 9.16.0, 9.17.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.1, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, and 11.2.0 of Jira Software Data Center. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector o...

DOM-based XSS react-router-dom Dependency in Crowd Data Center

This High severity DOM-based XSS vulnerability was introduced in version 7.1.0 of Crowd Data Center. This DOM-based XSS vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.2 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary HTML or...

DoS (Denial of Service) org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core Dependency in Bitbucket Data Center and Server

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability was introduced in version 8.19.0 and 9.4.0 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server. This DoS Denial of Service vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5, allows an attacker to perform actions to degrade service, which has no impact to...

XXE (XML External Entity Injection) org.apache.jackrabbit:jackrabbit-spi-commons Dependency in Confluence Data Center and Server

This High severity XXE XML External Entity Injection vulnerability was introduced in versions 7.13 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This XXE XML External Entity Injection vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.8 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H allows an...

DoS (Denial of Server) org.apache.struts:struts-core Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability known as CVE-2016-1182 was introduced in 11.2.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server. This vulnerability with a CVSS Score of 8.2 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to take...

Prototype Pollution loadash.pick Dependency Vulnerability in Jira Service Management Data Center and Server

This High severity Prototype Pollution vulnerability known as CVE-2020-8203 was introduced in 10.3.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center and Server. This vulnerability with a CVSS Score of 7.4 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker ...

DoS (Denial of Service) software.amazon.ion:ion-java Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity DoS Denial of Service vulnerability known as CVE-2024-21634 was introduced in 9.12.1 of Jira Software Data Center and Server. This 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 take...