CVE-2012-2928 XML external entity in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2928?

CVE-2012-2928 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Atlassian Jira, published on 22 May 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2928?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Atlassian Confluence Server, Atlassian Jira, Gliffy Gliffy.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2928?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-2928 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-2928 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2928 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2017-7415 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2016-6668 Information disclosure in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2012-6342 Cross-site request forgery in n/a Medium 6.8

All Atlassian Jira vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jvhg-gg3p-gmr7.