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Atlassian Confluence: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2023-22515)

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Atlassian Confluence: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2023-22515)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/04/2023
Created
10/04/2023
Added
10/04/2023
Modified
10/23/2023

Description

Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence instances. Atlassian Cloud sites are not affected by this vulnerability. If your Confluence site is accessed via an atlassian.net domain, it is hosted by Atlassian and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution(s)

  • atlassian-confluence-upgrade-8_3_3
  • atlassian-confluence-upgrade-8_4_3
  • atlassian-confluence-upgrade-8_5_2

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