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Atlassian Confluence Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Oct 4, 2023
Created
Oct 19, 2023

Description

This module exploits an improper input validation issue in Atlassian Confluence, allowing arbitrary HTTP
parameters to be translated into getter/setter sequences via the XWorks2 middleware and in turn allows for
Java objects to be modified at run time. The exploit will create a new administrator user and upload a
malicious plugins to get arbitrary code execution. All versions of Confluence between 8.0.0 through to 8.3.2,
8.4.0 through to 8.4.2, and 8.5.0 through to 8.5.1 are affected.

Author

sfewer-r7

Platform

Java

Architectures

java

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2023_22515
    msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2023_22515) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2023_22515) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2023_22515) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2023_22515) > exploit
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