CVE-2017-14587 Cross-site scripting in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible

What is CVE-2017-14587?

CVE-2017-14587 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Atlassian Crucible, published on 11 Oct 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The administration user deletion resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.4.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the uname parameter.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14587?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Fisheye.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14587?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-14587 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2017-14587 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14587 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Crucible

• CVE-2021-43958 Security feature bypass in Crucible Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-16861 Code injection in Fisheye and Crucible Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14591 Command injection in Fisheye and Crucible Critical 9.0
• CVE-2020-4018 Cross-site request forgery in Crucible High 8.8
• CVE-2018-13399 Privilege escalation in Fisheye and Crucible High 7.8

All Atlassian Crucible vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w37q-9jx3-6cgj.