Atlassian Confluence Unauth JSON setup-restore Improper Authorization leading to RCE (CVE-2023-22518)
Description
This Improper Authorization vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to reset Confluence and create a Confluence instance administrator account. Using this account, an attacker can then perform all administrative actions that are available to Confluence instance administrator. This module uses the administrator account to install a malicious .jsp servlet plugin which the user can trigger to gain code execution on the target in the context of the of the user running the confluence server.
Author(s)
- Atlassian
- jheysel-r7
Development
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use exploit/multi/http/atlassian_confluence_unauth_backup
msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_unauth_backup) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_unauth_backup) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_unauth_backup) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(atlassian_confluence_unauth_backup) > exploit
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