CVE-2022-26138 on CISA KEV

The Atlassian Questions For Confluence app for Confluence Server and Data Center creates a Confluence user account in the confluence-users group with the username disabledsystemuser and a hardcoded password. A remote, unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded passw

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

The Atlassian Questions For Confluence app for Confluence Server and Data Center creates a Confluence user account in the confluence-users group with the username disabledsystemuser and a hardcoded password. A remote, unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded password could exploit this to log into Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group…

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• jira.atlassian.com — https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-79483
• confluence.atlassian.com — https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2022-07-20-114…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Atlassian	Questions For Confluence	2.7.34, 2.7.35, 3.0.2

06Detection

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