Atlassian Critical Flaws in Almost Everything it Makes and Touches

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Atlassian has warned users of its Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible, and Jira products that a pair of critical-rated flaws threaten their security.

The company's July security advisories detail "Servlet Filter dispatcher vulnerabilities." One of the flaws – CVE-2022-26136 – is described as an arbitrary Servlet Filter bypass that means an attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP request to bypass custom Servlet Filters used by third-party apps to enforce authentication. The scary part is that the flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication used by third-party apps. The really scary part is that Atlassian doesn't have a definitive list of apps that could be impacted.

Atlassian reveals critical flaws across its product line

Fixes issued, warns it 'has not exhaustively enumerated all potential consequences'

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Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter.

What's worse than a widely used Internet-connected enterprise app with a hardcoded password? Try said enterprise app after the hardcoded password has been leaked to the world. Atlassian on Wednesday revealed three critical product vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-26138 stemming from a hardcoded password in Questions for Confluence, an app that allows users to quickly receive support for common questions involving Atlassian products. The company warned the passcode was "trivial to obtain."

The company said that Questions for Confluence had 8,055 installations at the time of publication. When installed, the app creates a Confluence user account named disabledsystemuser, which is intended to help admins move data between the app and the Confluence Cloud service. The hardcoded password protecting this account allows for viewing and editing of all non-restricted pages within Confluence.

"This issue is likely to be exploited in the wild now that the hardcoded password is publicly known," the updated advisory read. "This vulnerability should be remediated on affected systems immediately."

The company warned that even when Confluence installations don't actively have the app installed, they may still be vulnerable. Uninstalling the app doesn't automatically remediate the vulnerability because the disabledsystemuser account can still reside on the system.

Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

Advisory had already warned hardcoded password was "trivial to obtain."

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