Medium severity · published Jun 15, 2017
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 notification about new comments
4.3
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Confluence · Atlassian
4.3 before 6.2.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9505
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9505
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99086
Mitigation
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52560
Exploit
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170613-0_Atlassian_Confluence_Access_Restriction_Bypass_v10.txt
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