CVE-2023-22515

Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence instances. Atlassian Cloud sites are not affected by this vulnerability. If your Confluence site is accessed via an atlassian.net domain, it is hosted by Atlassian and is not vulnerable to this issue.

• CWE-20

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175225/Atlassian-Confluence-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/KB/FAQ+for+CVE-2023-22515Vendor Advisory
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1295682276Vendor Advisory
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-92475Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175225/Atlassian-Confluence-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/KB/FAQ+for+CVE-2023-22515Vendor Advisory
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1295682276Vendor Advisory
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-92475Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-22515US Government Resource

Published

Oct 4, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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