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Atlassian Confluence 7.19.x < 7.19.26 (CONFSERVER-98189)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209236

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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-98189 advisory.

 - moment is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Affected versions of moment were found to use an inefficient parsing algorithm. Specifically using string-to-date parsing in moment (more specifically rfc2822 parsing, which is tried by default) has quadratic (N^2) complexity on specific inputs. Users may notice a noticeable slowdown is observed with inputs above 10k characters. Users who pass user-provided strings without sanity length checks to moment constructor are vulnerable to (Re)DoS attacks. The problem is patched in 2.29.4, the patch can be applied to all affected versions with minimal tweaking. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should consider limiting date lengths accepted from user input. (CVE-2022-31129)

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 7.19.26 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-98189

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209236

File Name: confluence_confserver-98189.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: combined

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 10/17/2024

Updated: 10/25/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31129

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:atlassian:confluence

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Atlassian Confluence

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31129

IAVA: 2024-A-0685