Workaround for CVE-2019-15003

Problem

Affected Jira Service Management versions in CVE-2019-15003 will allow non-application access users - Service Management Customers to see restricted information in the Jira instance.

This allows Service Management Customers who normally don't have access to Jira information, this authorization bypass allows remote attackers with portal access to gain direct access to Jira with the same permissions.

This affects Jira Service Management portals that have the "Anyone can email the service project or raise a request in the portal" setting enabled, exploitation allows an attacker to view all issues within all Jira projects contained in the vulnerable instance.

Affected versions

• All versions before 3.9.17

• 3.10.x

• 3.11.x

• 3.12.x

• 3.13.x

• 3.14.x

• 3.15.x

• 3.16.x before 3.16.11 (the fixed version for 3.16.x)

• 4.0.x

• 4.1.x

• 4.2.x before 4.2.6 (the fixed version for 4.2.x)

• 4.3.x before 4.3.5 (the fixed version for 4.3.x)

• 4.4.x before 4.4.3 (the fixed version for 4.4.x)

• 4.5.x before 4.5.1 (the fixed version for 4.5.x)

Permanent resolution below along with workarounds if immediate upgrade is not possible

Resolution

Upgrade to fixed version of Jira Service Management

• 3.9.17

• 3.16.11

• 4.2.6

• 4.3.5

• 4.4.3

• 4.5.1

Workaround

Block authorization bypass.

Workaround 1.

Redirect requests to Jira containing jspa, jspx, jsp to a safe URL

1. Add the following to the <urlrewrite>section of [jira-installation-directory]/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml:

   1 2 3 4 <rule> <from>(?s)/servicedesk/.*\.jsp.*</from> <to type="temporary-redirect">/</to> </rule>

2. Save the urlrewrite.xml

3. Restart Jira

Workaround 2.

Block requests to Jira for authorization bypass at the reverse proxy or load-balancer level

Apache

1. Add the following into the .conf file that contains the virtualhost that proxies to Jira

   1 2 3 4 <LocationMatch "/servicedesk/.*\.jsp.*"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from all </LocationMatch>

   example below -

   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName jira.example.com ProxyRequests Off ProxyVia Off <Proxy *> Require all granted </Proxy> ProxyPass /jira http://ipaddress:8080/jira ProxyPassReverse /jira http://ipaddress:8080/jira <LocationMatch "/servicedesk/.*\.jsp.*"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from all </LocationMatch>  </VirtualHost>

2. Restart your Apache proxy

Nginx

1. Add the following into the .conf file that contains the server block that proxies to Jira inside location block

   1 if ($uri ~* "/servicedesk/.*\.jsp.*"){ return 403;}

   example below -

   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 location /jira { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http://ipaddress:8080/jira; client_max_body_size 10M; if ($uri ~* "/servicedesk/.*\.jsp.*"){ return 403;}  }

2. Restart your NGINX