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:...

Implement security sanitization of RSS feeds and other included content

A great improvement for RSS macros would be to implement "cleansing" or "sanitization" of external RSS feeds. This may be something that is configured at the admin level or in the macro level -- I'd prefer it to be a global admin requirement. Having externally linked content is a security risk, a...

Implement security sanitization of RSS feeds and other included content

A great improvement for RSS macros would be to implement "cleansing" or "sanitization" of external RSS feeds. This may be something that is configured at the admin level or in the macro level -- I'd prefer it to be a global admin requirement. Having externally linked content is a security risk, a...

XSS Vulnerability in Issue Links and Labels

We have identified and fixed a number of cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in JIRA issue links and labels. Affected versions are 4.2.x to 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...

XSRF vulnerability in the Social Bookmarking 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 Social Bookmarking plugin. Note that the Social Bookmarking plugin is disabled by default. If you do not...

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...

Searching within restricted pages/spaces

This is the issue reference: https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-59005?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel I wanted a feature wherein a user can search within spaces or pages that he/she does not have access to. There are some pages that I do not want everyone t...

XSS vulnerability in Create Space Button macro

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

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 Office Connector

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

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...

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...

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,...

Display Last-Login-Date for the User

Dear Atlassian! I don't know whether a ticket like this already exits or was solved, but I couln't find any. We would like to have displayed for any user after he logged in the time when he logged in before. This helps to find out whether someone else got hold of username&password and uses the...

NullPointerException when Switching between Projects or Boards

In my case, the WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties included has these loggers turned off, but they still seem to run. I am including a patch that ignores the NullPointerException following the pattern of ignoring the ClassNotFoundException. Details below taken from:...

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...

WebSudo should be disabled in devmode

When confluence is started in dev mode, websudo should be disabled...

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...

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...

Anonymise config files in support zip

Files included in the generated zip file could contain private information. This issue addresses that by removing all sensitive information before creating the zip. The severity of this issue is HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for other security related issues and...

Anonymise config files in support zip

Files included in the generated zip file could contain private information. This issue addresses that by removing all sensitive information before creating the zip. The severity of this issue is HIGH. Please see http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for other security related issues and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Miscellaneous support-related JSPs contain XSS holes

JIRA contains a number of support related JSPs that have been added over the years. They were mostly for fighting spam and other support related tasks. Unfortunately none of these were ever tested very much and contain a lot of XSS holes. They are: groupnames.jsp indexbrowser.jsp...

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...

KB "Running JIRA over SSL or HTTPS" needs review for Windows Standalone scenario

There are three recommended updates to the KB Running JIRA over SSL or HTTPS|http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+JIRA+over+SSL+or+HTTPS based on customer feedback. 1. quote When asked to "What is your first and last name" make sure you enter in the DNS name that you will use to...

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...

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 in PDF screen

The "PDF Export Stylesheet" field is not encoded...

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...

Import Pages is not restricted to system admins

The Import pages actions is currently restricted to space admins not system admins like it should. Caused by CONF-10039...

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...

XSS in pagetree plugin

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

XSS in site search action

http://confluence.atlassian.com/dosearchsite.action?where=confall&queryString=%3Cscript%3Ealert'foo';%3C/script%3E queryString needs to be escaped. This problem is fixed if they turn on Anti-XSS mode. We still need to fix this as anti-xss is not on by default...

Hidden pages' content can be viewed without permission using diffpages.action

If the id of a page is known by a user, that user can view the content of the page without having permissions to the space it is in. They need only construct the right URL. EG: Two spaces A and B Page with id 1 is in Space A Page with id 2 is in Space B User cannot see Space A User can see Space ...

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...

Users with view permissions on a space are able to delete (purge) pages they don't have permission to edit/access

If a user has at least view permissions on a space they can purge any page in that space using the URL: /pages/purgetrashitem.action?key=&contentId= and the right contentId and space key. A purge can be performed even if the page has not been marked for deletion. This issue has been replicated an...

JIRA Portlet Macro not displaying when authenticating using the trusted application between JIRA and Confluence

We're having issues using the JIRA portlet macro jiraportlet on pages inside Confluence. Whenever we try to use this macro using the trust between JIRA and Confluence for authentication, the macro does not display on the page. There aren't any errors, it just doesn't appear. code...

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...

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...

Vulnerability against DoS attack via labels

Description: When you give more labels to a content, then Confluence split up the user input on spaces, and then make az SQL query against each word or something like this. Exploit: Giving x thousand characters depends on the machine separated by space as label results the system is breaking down...