CVE-2023-22505 — This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability known as CVE-2023-2

This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability known as CVE-2023-22505 was introduced in version 8.0.0 of Confluence Data Center & Server.

01What is this vulnerability?

This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability known as CVE-2023-22505 was introduced in version 8.0.0 of Confluence Data Center & Server.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Atlassian	Confluence Data Center	< 8.0.0, >= 8.0.0, >= 8.3.2, >= 8.4.0
Atlassian	Confluence Server	< 8.0.0, >= 8.0.0, >= 8.3.2, >= 8.4.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-07-18T21:00:00.968Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-01T16:57:28.043Z

09References

• jira.atlassian.com — https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-88265