Netbeans Jira Plugin does not check https certificates

[Carlos Pantelides <carlos_pantelides () yahoo com>]

Title:
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Netbeans Jira Plugin does not check https certificates

Disclosure Timeline:
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[2012-01-02] Vulnerability reported (http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206848)
[2012-01-03] Assigned
[2012-01-30] More info added and asked for status
[2012-02-08] No answer, fully disclosed


Introduction
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Jira is a project tracking tool. It provides an API. (www.atlassian.com/software/jira)

Netbeans is an IDE that can consume Jira's API (www.netbeans.org) 

As provided by Atlassian Jira Studio, the API is protected at the transport layer with https.


Details
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Connecting to a jira instance through an intercepting proxy like webscarab raise no warning from the IDE nor the 
plugin, 
so you can decrypt the conversation, including username and password.

Checked that other applications detected the wrong certificates.



Affected Versions
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NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 (Build 201107282000)
NetBeans IDE 7.1 (Build 201112071828)
NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201201260600)


Carlos Pantelides
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http://seguridad-agile.blogspot.com/ 

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