CVE-2012-2928

medium
Published 2012-05-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.4
VIR risk
6.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/49166

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gliffygliffy{"endIncluding":"3.7"}
atlassianjira{"endIncluding":"5.0.0"}
gliffygliffy1.0.1
gliffygliffy2.0.0
gliffygliffy2.0.1
gliffygliffy2.1.0
gliffygliffy2.1.1
gliffygliffy2.1.2
gliffygliffy2.1.3
gliffygliffy2.2.0
gliffygliffy2.2.1
gliffygliffy2.2.2
gliffygliffy3.0.0
gliffygliffy3.0.1
gliffygliffy3.0.2
gliffygliffy3.0.3
gliffygliffy3.0.4
gliffygliffy3.0.5
gliffygliffy3.1.0
gliffygliffy3.1.1
gliffygliffy3.1.2
gliffygliffy3.1.3
gliffygliffy3.1.4
gliffygliffy3.5
gliffygliffy3.5.2
gliffygliffy3.6
gliffygliffy3.6.1
atlassianconfluence_server4.1.9

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.