Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter

Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter

Exposed private cert key may also be an issue for IBM Aspera


Twitter security celeb SwiftOnSecurity on Tuesday inadvertently disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting enterprise software biz Atlassian, a flaw that may be echoed in IBM's Aspera software.


The SwiftOnSecurity Twitter account revealed that Atlassian provided a domain that resolved to a local server with a common SSL certificate for its Confluence cloud service, to enable the Atlassian Companion app to edit files in a preferred local application and save the files back to Confluence.


Confluence connects to its companion app through the browser using the rather unwieldy domain: https://atlassian-domain-for-localhost-connections-only.com.


The problem with this arrangement is that anyone with sufficient technical knowledge ..

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