svn: E175002: Received fatal alert: bad_record_mac

Platform Notice: Data Center Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Data Center platform.

Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptoms

The following appears in the fisheye-debug-<DATE>.log or in the Repositories Page on the FishEye/Crucible UI:

1 Unable to initialise repository Connections due to com.cenqua.fisheye.config.ConfigException: Could not access <REPO_URL> : org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: Received fatal alert: bad_record_mac svn: E175002: PROPFIND request failed on '<REPO_URL>'

Cause

This is a known bug from SVNKit.

Workaround

That bug can be solved by doing the following:

  1. Add the following setting to your FISHEYE_OPTS variable:

    1 -Dsvnkit.http.sslProtocols="SSLv3"
  2. After that restart Fisheye/Crucible

Updated on April 8, 2025

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