Atlassian Confluence configuration files read

Febna V M

Published on

10 Jan 2022

Description

Atlassian Confluence is a team workspace where knowledge and Collaboration meet. It gives your team a place to create, capture, and collaborate on any idea or project.

Atlassian Confluence until versions 5.8.17 is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object. It allows authenticated users to read configuration files remotely via the decoratorName parameter to spaces/viewdefaultdecorator.action or admin/viewdefaultdecorator.action

Recommendation

Don’t run Atlassian run Confluence as root/Administrator
Block all URLs that match the pattern using proxy
Update Atlassian Confluence the latest version

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