CVE-2021-43940

published 2022-02-15

CVE-2021-43940: Affected versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center allow authenticated local attackers to achieve elevated privileges on the local system via a…

Priority P3 36 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C H I H A H

Affected versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center allow authenticated local attackers to achieve elevated privileges on the local system via a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in the Confluence installer. This vulnerability only affects installations of Confluence Server and Data Center on Windows. The affected versions are before version 7.4.10, and from version 7.5.0 before 7.12.3.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
atlassian	confluence_data_center	< 7.4.10	7.4.10
atlassian	confluence_data_center	>= 7.5.0 < unspecified	unspecified
atlassian	confluence_data_center	>= 7.5.0 < 7.12.3	7.12.3
atlassian	confluence_data_center	>= unspecified < 7.4.10	7.4.10
atlassian	confluence_data_center	>= unspecified < 7.12.3	7.12.3
atlassian	confluence_server	< 7.4.10	7.4.10
atlassian	confluence_server	>= 7.5.0 < unspecified	unspecified
atlassian	confluence_server	>= 7.5.0 < 7.12.3	7.12.3
atlassian	confluence_server	>= unspecified < 7.4.10	7.4.10
atlassian	confluence_server	>= unspecified < 7.12.3	7.12.3

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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