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CVE-2023-22515

CRITICAL
9.8CVSS
Published: 2023-10-04
Updated: 2025-10-24
AI Analysis

Description

Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence instances. Atlassian Cloud sites are not affected by this vulnerability. If your Confluence site is accessed via an atlassian.net domain, it is hosted by Atlassian and is not vulnerable to this issue.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-20

Metadata

Primary Vendor
ATLASSIAN
Published
10/4/2023
Last Modified
10/24/2025
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

atlassian : confluence_data_centeratlassian : confluence_data_centeratlassian : confluence_data_centeratlassian : confluence_serveratlassian : confluence_serveratlassian : confluence_server

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