High [CVE-2023-22521] Confluence: This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 3.4.6 of Crowd Data Center and Server
This high-severity Atlassian advisory covers CVE-2023-22521 affecting Confluence, Crowd.
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Summary
This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 3.4.6 of Crowd Data Center and Server.
This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.0, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.
Atlassian recommends that Crowd Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: Crowd Data Center and Server 3.4: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 5.1.6
See the release notes ([ ]).
This vulnerability was discovered by m1sn0w and reported via our Bug Bounty program
Affected products named by the advisory: Confluence.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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- 5.1.6
- 5.2.1
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 5.1.6, 5.2.1. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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