CVE-2012-2928

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Atlassian Confluence Data Center: 4.1.9
Atlassian Jira: through 5.0.0
Gliffy: through 3.7; 1.0.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 (+19)

References

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
http://osvdb.org/81993
http://secunia.com/advisories/49166
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53595
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75697
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Security+Advisory+2012-05-17
http://osvdb.org/81993
http://secunia.com/advisories/49166
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53595
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75697

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