Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-43940

High

Published: 15 February 2022

Published
15 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 36.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-43940 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 36.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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Center on Windows. The affected versions are before version 7.4.10, and from version 7.5.0 before 7.12.3.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

atlassian
confluence data center
≤ 7.4.10 · 7.5.0 — 7.12.3
atlassian
confluence server
≤ 7.4.10 · 7.5.0 — 7.12.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References