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Day · Oct 16, 2023

Confluence Data Center/Server zero-day lets attackers create admins (CVE-2023-22515)

Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server

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Updates on Oct 16, 2023

  1. CISA, FBI and MS-ISAC joint advisory AA23-289A on active exploitation

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Summary

A broken access control bug in publicly reachable Confluence Data Center and Server let outside attackers create Confluence administrator accounts. It was exploited as a zero-day, and Microsoft attributed it to the China-nexus Storm-0062. Atlassian Cloud was not affected.

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