SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2023-22515

CVE-2023-22515 on CISA KEV

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

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Broken Access Control Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / Atlassian / Confluence Data Center and Server
Added to KEV
2023-10-05
BOD 22-01 due
2023-10-13
Ransomware use
Known
CVSS / EPSS
10.0 CRITICAL · EPSS 94.33%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

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.

03Notes & references

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)

VendorProductVersions
AtlassianConfluence Data Center< 8.0.0, >= 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, >= 8.4.3, >= 8.5.2
AtlassianConfluence Server< 8.0.0, >= 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, >= 8.4.3, >= 8.5.2

06Detection

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