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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Broken Access Control Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2023-10-05
Remediation due
2023-10-13
Ransomware
Known use

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Check all affected Confluence instances for evidence of compromise per vendor instructions and report any positive findings to CISA.

CISA notes
https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/cve-2023-22515-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-confluence-data-center-and-server-1295682276.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22515

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0 · CNA10 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableyes
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
AtlassianConfluence Data Center
< 8.0.0 (unaffected)
>= 8.0.0
>= 8.0.1
>= 8.0.2
>= 8.0.3
>= 8.1.3
>= 8.1.4
>= 8.2.0
>= 8.2.1
>= 8.2.2
>= 8.2.3
>= 8.3.0
>= 8.3.1
>= 8.3.2
>= 8.4.0
>= 8.4.1
>= 8.4.2
>= 8.5.0
>= 8.5.1
>= 8.3.3 (unaffected)
>= 8.4.3 (unaffected)
>= 8.5.2 (unaffected)
AtlassianConfluence Server
< 8.0.0 (unaffected)
>= 8.0.0
>= 8.0.1
>= 8.0.2
>= 8.0.3
>= 8.1.3
>= 8.1.4
>= 8.2.0
>= 8.2.1
>= 8.2.2
>= 8.2.3
>= 8.3.0
>= 8.3.1
>= 8.3.2
>= 8.4.0
>= 8.4.1
>= 8.4.2
>= 8.5.0
>= 8.5.1
>= 8.3.3 (unaffected)
>= 8.4.3 (unaffected)
>= 8.5.2 (unaffected)

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