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Atlassian Confluence: Remote Code Excecution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-22526)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 16, 2024
Added
Jun 26, 2024
Modified
Jan 30, 2025

Description

This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 7.19.0 of Confluence Data Center.

This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.2, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:
Confluence Data Center and Server 7.19: Upgrade to a release 7.19.17, or any higher 7.19.x release
Confluence Data Center and Server 8.5: Upgrade to a release 8.5.5 or any higher 8.5.x release
Confluence Data Center and Server 8.7: Upgrade to a release 8.7.2 or any higher release

See the release notes ([https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html]). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives]).

This vulnerability was discovered by m1sn0w and reported via our Bug Bounty program

Solutions

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