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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-2926

Atlassian JIRA before 5.0.1; Confluence before 3.5.16, 4.0 before 4.0.7, and 4.1 before 4.1.10; FishEye and Crucible before 2.5.8, 2.6 before 2.6.8, and 2.7 before 2.7.12; Bamboo before 3.3.4 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5; and Crowd before 2.0.9, 2.1 before…

EXPLOIT ✓CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 66.3%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 66.3%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Atlassian JIRA before 5.0.1; Confluence before 3.5.16, 4.0 before 4.0.7, and 4.1 before 4.1.10; FishEye and Crucible before 2.5.8, 2.6 before 2.6.8, and 2.7 before 2.7.12; Bamboo before 3.3.4 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5; and Crowd before 2.0.9, 2.1 before 2.1.2, 2.2 before 2.2.9, 2.3 before 2.3.7, and 2.4 before 2.4.1 do 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.

CVSS 3.1
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
66.26% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 17 May 2012
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
atlassian/bamboo · atlassian/confluence · atlassian/confluence server · atlassian/crowd · atlassian/crucible · atlassian/fisheye · atlassian/jira
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%35%70%4 November 2026: 66.26%4 November 20264 November 2026

EPSS 66.3% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-37218source ↗Atlassian Tempo 6.4.3 / JIRA 5.0.0 / Gliffy 3.7.0 - XML Parsing Denial of Servicejsp · anonymousdos17 May 2012yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.