CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9505
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
Description
Atlassian Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 did not check if a user had permission to view a page when creating a workbox notification about new comments. An attacker who can login to Confluence could receive workbox notifications, which contain the content of comments, for comments added to a page after they started watching it even if they do not have permission to view the page itself.
Affected configurations
• atlassian confluence (>= 4.3 < 6.2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99086 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52560 Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170613-0_Atlassian_Confluence_Access_Restriction_Bypass_v10.txt Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99086 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52560 Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170613-0_Atlassian_Confluence_Access_Restriction_Bypass_v10.txt Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory