$ cve CVE-2012-2926 JSON

CVE-2012-2926 EXPLOIT

9.1

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 66.3% (pctl 99)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	9.1 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS	66.26% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2012-05-22
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (7)

Vendor	Product
atlassian	bamboo
atlassian	confluence
atlassian	confluence server
atlassian	crowd
atlassian	crucible
atlassian	fisheye
atlassian	jira

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Atlassian Tempo 6.4.3 / JIRA 5.0.0 / Gliffy 3.7.0 - XML Parsing Denial of Service	2012-05-17

References

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