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CVE-2017-9505
Atlassian Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 did not check if a user had permission to view a page when creating a workbox…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.3%
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- atlassian
Description
Atlassian Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 did not check if a user had permission to view a page when creating a workbox notification about new comments. An attacker who can login to Confluence could receive workbox notifications, which contain the content of comments, for comments added to a page after they started watching it even if they do not have permission to view the page itself.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- Access Restriction Bypass
- CWE-276 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Atlassian · Confluence Server
- affected Versions of Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 are affected by this vulnerability.
References (3)
- 99086 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52560 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170613-0_Atlassian_Confluence_Access_Restriction_Bypass_v10.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .