Description
Atlassian JIRA before 5.0.1; Confluence before 3.5.16, 4.0 before 4.0.7, and 4.1 before 4.1.10; FishEye and Crucible before 2.5.8, 2.6 before 2.6.8, and 2.7 before 2.7.12; Bamboo before 3.3.4 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5; and Crowd before 2.0.9, 2.1 before 2.1.2, 2.2 before 2.2.9, 2.3 before 2.3.7, and 2.4 before 2.4.1 do not properly restrict the capabilities of third-party XML parsers, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Metasploit 1 module
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Atlassian Crowd XML Entity Expansion Remote File Access
auxiliary/scanner/http/atlassian_crowd_fileaccess
Exploit-DB 1
- Atlassian Tempo 6.4.3 / JIRA 5.0.0 / Gliffy 3.7.0 - XML Parsing Denial of Service EDB-37218 · dos · May 17, 2012 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- fisheye-crucible-xml-dos(75682) vdb-entry
- 49146 third-party-advisory
- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/FishEye+and+Crucible+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
- 81993 vdb-entry
- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Crowd+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
- 53595 vdb-entry
- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Bamboo+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
- jira-xml-dos(75697) vdb-entry