https JIRA "weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman public key”

[KP11]

I have read several articles that state to upgrade to java 1.8 and add 

-Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 in tomcat startup.

Some articles say JIRA 5.2.4.1 does not work with Java 1.8.. We are upgrading end of year to cloud 

Can this  issue be related to certifcates as well. We need to fix the issue before the upgrade. Any other workarounds  besides Java upgrade?

[no_longer_in_sudoers_file]

Have you considered putting nginx or apache in front of your JIRA instance to abstract away your SSL handling from JAVA?  This gives you a few more tools for managing these problems.

[KP11]

We can test that on our dev system. Thanks

[KP11]

I saw this workaround. It does notdetail where exactly the line goes To workaround the problem, please add the cipher below to disable the weak Diffie-Hellman cipher. Open server.xml via $JIRA_INSTALL/conf directory. Add the following to the HTTPS connector port: ciphers="TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA" (info) Reference for more strong cipher settings - Security tools report the default SSL Ciphers are too weak Save it and restart JIRA. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Server+has+a+weak,+ephemeral+Diffie-Hellman+public+key

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid not, if you want to upgrade Java, you need to upgrade Jira.

[KP11]

I saw this workaround. It does notdetail where exactly the line goes To workaround the problem, please add the cipher below to disable the weak Diffie-Hellman cipher. Open server.xml via $JIRA_INSTALL/conf directory. Add the following to the HTTPS connector port: ciphers="TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA" (info) Reference for more strong cipher settings - Security tools report the default SSL Ciphers are too weak Save it and restart JIRA. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Server+has+a+weak,+ephemeral+Diffie-Hellman+public+key

[KP11]

<Connector port="8963" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLSv1" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2,TLSv1.1,TLSv1" clientAuth="false" SSLEnabled="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8" keyAlias="server" keystoreFile="conf/jira.jks" keystorePass="solumina" ciphers="TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_SHA256,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_SHA256,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_SHA256, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_SHA"

[KP11]

There is already a cipher key.

[KP11]

I was going to add it to the line? Any know issues with this workaround?