This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 5.2 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.2, 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 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. 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 found internally.

Despite the requirement for certain preconditions for exploitation, we recommend patching this quickly as public exploit code is available

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Confluence application running on the remote host is prior to 7.19.22, 7.20.x prior to 8.5.9 or 8.6.x prior to 8.9.1 It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Atlassian Confluence Server running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CONFSERVER-95832 advisory.

  - This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 5.2 of Confluence     Data Center and Server. This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, 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     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. This vulnerability was found internally.
    (CVE-2024-21683)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
114289	Atlassian Confluence < 7.19.22 Remote Code Execution	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114288	Atlassian Confluence 8.6.x < 8.9.1 Remote Code Execution	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114287	Atlassian Confluence 7.20.x < 8.5.9 Remote Code Execution	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
197898	Atlassian Confluence 5.2 < 7.19.22 / 7.20.x < 8.5.9 / 8.6.x < 8.9.1 RCE (CONFSERVER-95832)	Nessus	CGI abuses	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2024-21683

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

high

high