CVE-2021-43940

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AtlassianConfluence Serverunspecified < 7.4.10affected
AtlassianConfluence Server7.5.0 < unspecifiedaffected
AtlassianConfluence Serverunspecified < 7.12.3affected
AtlassianConfluence Data Centerunspecified < 7.4.10affected
AtlassianConfluence Data Center7.5.0 < unspecifiedaffected
AtlassianConfluence Data Centerunspecified < 7.12.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References