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Atlassian Confluence: Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CVE-2021-43940)

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Atlassian Confluence: Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CVE-2021-43940)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/15/2022
Created
03/02/2022
Added
03/01/2022
Modified
09/18/2024

Description

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.

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