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Atlassian JIRA 6.0 < 8.5.5 / 8.6 < 8.8.1 XSS (JRASERVER-70923)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137065

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Synopsis

The remote web server hosts a web application that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the instance of Atlassian JIRA hosted on the remote web server is 6.x prior to 8.5.5 or 8.6.x prior to 8.8.1. It is, therefore, affected by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in its view issue screen due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session.
 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Atlassian JIRA version 8.5.5, 8.8.1, 8.9.0 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-70923

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137065

File Name: jira_8_9_0.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 6/3/2020

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4021

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:atlassian:jira

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Atlassian JIRA

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4021

IAVA: 2020-A-0236-S