CVE-2024-21673 Code injection in Confluence Data Center

High 8.0 Published Updated

Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary code on Confluence Data Center and Server instances, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-21673?

CVE-2024-21673 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center, published on 16 Jan 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

This High severity Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability was introduced in versions 7.13.0 of Confluence Data Center and Server.

Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.0 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H allows an authenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and does not require user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Confluence 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:

* Confluence Data Center and Server 7.19: Upgrade to a release 7.19.18, or any higher 7.19.x release * Confluence Data Center and Server 8.5: Upgrade to a release 8.5.5 or any higher 8.5.x release * Confluence Data Center and Server 8.7: Upgrade to a release 8.7.2 or any higher release

See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html ). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives ).

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21673?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Atlassian Confluence Data Center, Atlassian Confluence Server.

How do I fix CVE-2024-21673?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21673 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-21673 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21673 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jp7h-g39h-xfp6.

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