CVE-2017-9505

MEDIUM

Atlassian Confluence <6.2.1 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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.

References (3)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99086

[Mitigation, Vendor Advisory] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52560

[Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory] https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170613-0_Atlassian_Confluence_Access_Restriction_Bypass_v10.txt

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0039

EPSS Percentile 59.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-276

Status published

Products (2)

atlassian/confluence < 6.2.1

Atlassian/Confluence Server < Versions of Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 are affected by this vulnerability.

Published Jun 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026