CVE-2023-22515 — Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Broken Access Control Vulnerability

Exploitation status

CVE-2023-22515 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2023-10-05. Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server contains a broken access control vulnerability that allows an attacker to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project

Atlassian

Affected product

Confluence Data Center and Server

Added to CISA KEV

2023-10-05

US federal remediation due date

2023-10-13

Ransomware association

Known

EPSS score

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Weakness (CWE)

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Remediation: the 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.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

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