Security News > 2024 > January > Atlassian warns of critical RCE flaw in older Confluence versions
Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server are vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability that impacts versions released before December 5, 2023, including out-of-support releases.
Atlassian fixed the flaw in Confluence Data Center and Server versions 8.5.4, 8.6.0, and 8.7.1, which were released in December.
A FAQ page Atlassian set up for the flaw explains that CVE-2023-22527 does not impact Confluence LTS v7.19.x, Cloud Instances hosted by the vendor, or any other Atlassian product.
Atlassian Confluence bugs are often leveraged by attackers in the wild, including state-sponsored threat groups and opportunistic ransomware groups.
Atlassian patches critical RCE flaws across multiple products.
Apache OFBiz RCE flaw exploited to find vulnerable Confluence servers.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-16 | CVE-2023-22527 | Injection vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server A template injection vulnerability on older versions of Confluence Data Center and Server allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve RCE on an affected instance. | 9.8 |