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Atlassian Confluence 7.13.15 < 7.13.19 / 7.19.7 < 7.19.11 / 8.1.1 < 8.4.1 DoS (CONFSERVER-90185)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179901

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Synopsis

The remote Atlassian Confluence host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of Atlassian Confluence Server running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CONFSERVER-90185 advisory.

 - The fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete for Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M2 to 11.0.0-M4, 10.1.5 to 10.1.7, 9.0.71 to 9.0.73 and 8.5.85 to 8.5.87. If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed with the potential for a denial of service to occur.

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 7.13.19, 7.19.11, 8.4.1 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-90185

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179901

File Name: confluence_confserver-90185.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: combined

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 6/5/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28709

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:atlassian:confluence

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Atlassian Confluence

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28709