vulnerability
Atlassian Confluence: CVE-2024-21703: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Nov 27, 2024 | May 8, 2025 | May 13, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 27, 2024
Added
May 8, 2025
Modified
May 13, 2025
Description
This Medium severity Security Misconfiguration vulnerability was introduced in version 8.8.1 of Confluence Data Center and Server for Windows installations.
This Security Misconfiguration vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 6.4 allows an authenticated attacker of the Windows host to read sensitive information about the Confluence Data Center configuration which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and no user interaction.
Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and Server customers upgrade to the 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 greater than or equal to 7.19.18
* Confluence Data Center and Server 8.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.5.5
* Confluence Data Center and Server 8.7: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.7.2
* Confluence Data Center and Server 8.8: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.8.0
See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf88/confluence-release-notes-1354501008.html ). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives ).
This vulnerability was reported via our Atlassian Bug Bounty Program by Chris Elliot.
This Security Misconfiguration vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 6.4 allows an authenticated attacker of the Windows host to read sensitive information about the Confluence Data Center configuration which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and no user interaction.
Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and Server customers upgrade to the 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 greater than or equal to 7.19.18
* Confluence Data Center and Server 8.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.5.5
* Confluence Data Center and Server 8.7: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.7.2
* Confluence Data Center and Server 8.8: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.8.0
See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf88/confluence-release-notes-1354501008.html ). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives ).
This vulnerability was reported via our Atlassian Bug Bounty Program by Chris Elliot.
Solution
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