VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2928

medium
Published 2012-05-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

Description

The Gliffy plugin before 3.7.1 for Atlassian JIRA, and before 4.2 for Atlassian Confluence, does 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
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gliffygliffy{"endIncluding":"3.7"}
atlassianjira{"endIncluding":"5.0.0"}
gliffygliffy1.0.1
gliffygliffy2.0.0
gliffygliffy2.0.1
gliffygliffy2.1.0
gliffygliffy2.1.1
gliffygliffy2.1.2
gliffygliffy2.1.3
gliffygliffy2.2.0
gliffygliffy2.2.1
gliffygliffy2.2.2
gliffygliffy3.0.0
gliffygliffy3.0.1
gliffygliffy3.0.2
gliffygliffy3.0.3
gliffygliffy3.0.4
gliffygliffy3.0.5
gliffygliffy3.1.0
gliffygliffy3.1.1
gliffygliffy3.1.2
gliffygliffy3.1.3
gliffygliffy3.1.4
gliffygliffy3.5
gliffygliffy3.5.2
gliffygliffy3.6
gliffygliffy3.6.1
atlassianconfluence_server4.1.9

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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