(PT-2009-40) Positive Technologies Security Advisory
JIRA sensitive information disclosure

Affected Software

JIRA
Versions prior to 3.13.4-#354


Product Link:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/

Severity Rating

Severity: Low
Impact: Sensitive information disclosure
Attack Vector: Remote

CVSS v2

Base Score: 0.0
Temporal Score: 0.0
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)

CVE: not assigned

Software Description

JIRA lets you prioritise, assign, track, report and audit your 'issues,' whatever they may be — from software bugs and help-desk tickets to project tasks and change requests.

Vulnerability Description

Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in JIRA.

The vulnerability was detected when calling "/secure/ConfigureReleaseNote.jspa" script.

An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could identify web server root folder and other server sensitive data.

Solution

Update to lastest version.

Workaround

You can workaround the problem by editing your atlassian-jira/500page.jsp and removing this line:
...
<li><webwork:text name="'system.error.step3'"><webwork:param name="'value0'"><% out.println(extendedSystemInfoUtils.getLogPath());%></webwork:param></webwork:text>
...

Disclosure Timeline

06/02/2009 - Vendor notified
06/03/2009 - Vendor response
06/04/2009 - The vendor confirmed the vulnerability and issued a workaround decision
06/24/2009 - Requested status update from vendor
06/24/2009 - Public disclosure

Credits

This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.

References

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-40
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team:

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp

About Positive Technologies

Positive Technologies www.ptsecurity.com is among the key players in the IT security market in Russia.

The principal activities of the company include the development of integrated tools for information security monitoring (MaxPatrol); providing IT security consulting services and technical support; the development of the Securitylab en.securitylab.ru leading Russian information security portal.

Among the clients of Positive Technologies there are more than 40 state enterprises, more than 50 banks and financial organizations, 20 telecommunication companies, more than 40 plant facilities, as well as IT, service and retail companies from Russia, CIS countries, Baltic States, China, Ecuador, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South African Republic, Thailand, Turkey and USA.

Positive Technologies is a team of highly skilled developers, advisers and experts with years of vast hands-on experience. The company specialists possess professional titles and certificates; they are the members of various international societies and are actively involved in the IT security field development.