The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team became aware of a remote code execution vulnerability in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, assessed its impact and developed mitigation measures.
Confluence Server is a software to manage documentation and knowledge bases with an ubiquitous presence across the globe. Identified as CVE-2024-21683, Confluence Data Center and Server before version 8.9.1(data center only), 8.5.9 LTS and 7.19.22 LTS allows an authenticated threat actor with the privilege of adding new macro languages to execute arbitrary code, earning a high CVSS score of 8.3. Confluence users are encouraged to upgrade their instances to the latest fixed version, as mentioned by the vendor in the advisory.
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Source: Sonicwall
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