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Atlassian Confluence < 6.13.1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124330

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Synopsis

A web application running on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Confluence application running on the remote host is prior to 6.13.1.
It is therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability which exists in the 'Word Export' component. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this which may lead to recovery of already deleted content pages.

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

Solution

Upgrade to Atlassian Confluence version 6.13.1, 6.14.0 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57814

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124330

File Name: confluence_6_14_0.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 4/26/2019

Updated: 6/5/2024

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode, Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20237

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:atlassian:confluence

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, installed_sw/confluence

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20237

BID: 107041

IAVA: 2019-A-0135-S