CVE-2024-21677 Path traversal in Confluence Data Center
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit a path traversal flaw in Confluence Data Center to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-21677?
CVE-2024-21677 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center, published on 19 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
This High severity Path Traversal vulnerability was introduced in version 6.13.0 of Confluence Data Center. This Path Traversal vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, allows an unauthenticated attacker to exploit an undefinable vulnerability which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires 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: Data Center Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to the latest version and that Confluence Server customers upgrade to the latest 8.5.x LTS version.
If you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions 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.
This vulnerability was reported via our Bug Bounty program.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21677?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Atlassian Confluence Data Center, Atlassian Confluence Server.
How do I fix CVE-2024-21677?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21677 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2024-21677 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21677 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Confluence Data Center
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- CVE-2023-22518 Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Improper Authorization
- CVE-2023-22515 Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Broken Access Control
- CVE-2022-26134 Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2021-26084 Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL) Injection
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vcmw-wwpg-fvfx.