Jira update for CVE-2018-1336 and CVE-2018-8037.

Question

This may be more of a problem with the fact that I don't know (yet) how to navigate the Atlassian web site. I am looking for update information about the Tomcat security bugs CVE-2018-1336 and CVE-2018-8037. I see that Jira 7.12.1 is available, but I couldn't find information about what version of Tomcat it includes, so I downloaded the TGZ-File and extract the  tomcat-docs/RELEASE-NOTES file. That says "Apache Tomcat Version 8.5.29", which stiil has the vunerabilitis. I would prefer not downloading other versions to see if they have a fixed Tomcat.

Is there any current information on the status of a Jira version with a patched Tomcat?

jimmo42 · Answer

It is my understanding that Atlassian officially supports bundled versions of Tomcat only. That would mean that once we have upgraded Tomcat as described in the article, Jira is no longer officially supported. Further, in the article mentioned above, it explicitely states "Atlassian Support cannot guarantee to provide any support for the steps described on this page". In other words, the only workaround is not officially support by Atlassian and will create a version of Jira that is also not officially supported. Our customer is not going to be too happy that a non-supported fix is the only available solution to a security problem.

Is there any timeline when an offIcially supported fix will be available?

Gabriele Franck · Answer

Hi @jimmo42

With regards to CVE-2018-8037 and CVE-2018-1336 our security team is aware of these vulnerabilities and currently working on the fix. We however do not maintain a public bug ticket for you to watch at the moment (for security reasons).

With regards to Tomcat release (which is 8.5.32), I need to point out though, you will able to upgrade Tomcat if you are on the latest version of Jira 7.11. Referring to this KB article: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-upgrade-apache-tomcat-version-in-jira-7-x-879957866.html as notes: This article is mainly for users who are using JIRA latest version and encounter security vulnerability from the Apache Tomcat. If you are not using our JIRA latest version, please upgrade JIRA to have the latest fix instead of referring the steps here.

Hope this helps!

Gabi