This High severity Path Traversal vulnerability was introduced in version 6.13.0 of Confluence Data Center. This Path Traversal vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, allows an unauthenticated attacker to exploit an undefinable vulnerability which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires 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: Data Center Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to the latest version and that Confluence Server customers upgrade to the latest 8.5.x LTS 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 reported via our Bug Bounty program.

The version of Atlassian Confluence Server running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CONFSERVER-94604 advisory.

  - This High severity Path Traversal vulnerability was introduced in version 6.13.0 of Confluence Data     Center. This Path Traversal vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, allows an unauthenticated attacker to     exploit an undefinable vulnerability which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity,     high impact to availability, and requires 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: Data Center Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data     Center customers upgrade to the latest version and that Confluence Server customers upgrade to the latest     8.5.x LTS 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 reported     via our Bug Bounty program. (CVE-2024-21677)

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

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Confluence application running on the remote host is prior to 7.19.20, 7.20.x prior to 8.5.7 or 8.6.x prior to 8.8.1 It is, therefore, affected by a path traversal vulnerability.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
192565	Atlassian Confluence 6.13.0 < 7.19.20 / 7.20.x < 8.5.7 / 8.6.x < 8.8.1 (CONFSERVER-94604)	Nessus	CGI abuses	high
114240	Atlassian Confluence 8.6.x < 8.8.1 Path Traversal	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114239	Atlassian Confluence 7.20.x < 8.5.7 Path Traversal	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114238	Atlassian Confluence < 7.19.20 Path Traversal	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2024-21677

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high