How to secure Bamboo against Poodle by disabling SSLV3

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Summary

Disabling SSLV3 in Bamboo instances utilizing a Tomcat container in order to secure against the Poodle Exploit.

Solution

  1. Stop Bamboo server,

  2. Edit the <Bamboo server installation directory>/conf/server.xml file:

    server.xml

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 <Connector port="8085" protocol="HTTP/1.1" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8" redirectPort="8443"> <UpgradeProtocol className="org.apache.coyote.http2.Http2Protocol" /> </Connector>

    Please note these are default values, yours may look different.

  3. Add the following to the connector:

    1 sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2,TLSv1.1,TLSv1"

  4. Start Bamboo server.

This should do it for Bamboo running default in Tomcat container.

Extra Strength Protection

Consider updating the ciphers Tomcat is using

In-Depth Linux SSLV3 Dive

Updated on April 2, 2025
Platform
Data Center only
Product
Bamboo Data Center
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