4.3med

CVE-2017-9505

Atlassian Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 did not check if a user had permission to view a page when creating a workbox notific…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.3
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.3%
percentile 70%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Atlassian Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 did not check if a user had permission to view a page when creating a workbox notification about new comments. An attacker who can login to Confluence could receive workbox notifications, which contain the content of comments, for comments added to a page after they started watching it even if they do not have permission to view the page itself.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.26% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.14.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD2.04.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Atlassian Confluence Server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/99086 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • jira.atlassian.com /browse/CONFSERVER-52560 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • sec-consult.com /fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170613-0_Atlassian_Confluence_Access_Restric · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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