Problems with dockerized Jira behind NGINX

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to configure Jira v7.9.0 from the cptactionhank/atlassian-jira-software docker behind an Nginx reverse proxy configuration and it keeps blocking all the requests with the following error:

[c.a.p.r.c.security.jersey.XsrfResourceFilter] Additional XSRF checks failed for request

I'm looking for a way to manually disable the Whitelist from a config file or something but can't seem to find any resources on that.

1. My settings.xml file  has the correct  HTTPS - Proxying Jira via Apache or Nginx over HTTPS block enabled with the proxyName and proxyPort configured correctly

2. My Nginx configuration has the proxy_pass_request_headers on; enabled correctly for the jira proxy_pass block

Steve Gredell · Answer

Hello Andrew, I'm having a similar issue, trying to use nginx for HTTPS/SSL reasons. The error I'm getting is: 2018-04-26 20:11:56,518 http-nio-8080-exec-18 WARN 1211x59x1 1x5wz0b ,10.0.1.4 /rest/analytics/1.0/publish/bulk [c.a.p.r.c.security.jersey.XsrfResourceFilter] Additional XSRF checks failed for request: http:///jira/rest/analytics/1.0/publish/bulk , origin: https:// , referrer: https:///jira/secure/WelcomeToJIRA.jspa , credentials in request: true , allowed via CORS: false I have also followed the steps in both 'Integrating JIRA with Nginx' as well as the CSRF KB you posted, but I'm still having issues with CSRF. It's actually preventing me from creating a new project and otherwise setting up my instance. My server.xml connectors are as follows: I've been commenting/uncommenting them out at times to try to get it to work, but no luck so far.

Andy Heinzer · Answer

It sounds like you are encountering the problem described in the KB Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection changes in Atlassian REST.  I would recommend reviewing that document to better understand why this error can be thrown in Jira.   The KB notes that:

This usually happens due to Tomcat proxy configuration issues.

and it goes on to offer next steps to follow in regards to configuring proxyName, proxyPort, and scheme within the $JIRAINSTALL/conf/server.xml file.

I would also recommend checking out Integrating JIRA with Nginx.  It does provide specific configurations for both Jira and nginx to make sure they can play together nicely.

If these two resources do not help, could you let us know the rest of the details for the error:

[c.a.p.r.c.security.jersey.XsrfResourceFilter] Additional XSRF checks failed for request

I am expecting this to contain more information about the origin and referral URLs.  The first KB has an example such as

2015-09-01 17:25:46.530585500 2015-09-01 07:25:46,530 ajp-nio-127.0.0.104-8009-exec-23 WARN anonymous 1045x1465x1 sibktb 127.0.0.1 /rest/auth/latest/session [c.a.p.r.c.security.jersey.XsrfResourceFilter] Additional XSRF checks failed for request:https://example.domain/rest/auth/latest/session , origin:https://another-origin.domain , referrer: null , credentials in request: true , allowed via CORS: false}}

I would also like to know what address you are accessing Jira on, and what values you have set for <connector> tags in Jira's server.xml file.