Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-22512 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) and SC-6 (Resource Availability) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2023-22512 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Confluence Data Center and Server, introduced in version 5.6.0. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.5 with the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, corresponding to CWE-400 and an NVD-CWE-noinfo entry. The flaw permits an unauthenticated network attacker to render a Confluence instance unavailable by exhausting resources, with no effect on confidentiality or integrity.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger the condition over the network without user interaction, resulting in temporary or sustained disruption of the Confluence service and high impact to availability for all users of the affected instance.
Atlassian’s advisory directs customers to upgrade Confluence Data Center and Server to 7.19.14 or later, 8.5.1 or later, or any 8.6 release; instances already on 8.6 or newer require no action. Fixed releases and release notes are available from the vendor’s download center and documentation pages. The issue was disclosed through Atlassian’s Bug Bounty program. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.1481 with no material increase after publication.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-26652
Vulnerability Data
This High severity DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability was introduced in version 5.6.0 of Confluence Data Center and Server. With a CVSS Score of 7.5, this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a resource to be unavailable for its…
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intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a vulnerable host (Confluence instance) connected to a network, which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction. Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: Confluence Data Center and Server 7.19: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 7.19.14 Confluence Data Center and Server 8.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.5.1 Confluence Data Center and Server 8.6 or above: No need to upgrade, you're already on a patched version See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html ). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives ]). This vulnerability was reported via our Bug Bounty program.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-5 directly limits the effects of resource-exhaustion events that constitute uncontrolled consumption.
SC-6 enforces explicit allocation limits on resources, structurally preventing the weakness from occurring.
Process isolation confines resource consumption to separate domains, reducing blast radius without stopping the root flaw.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Pre-agreed severity-based prioritization and resource allocation during incident triage reduce the likelihood that an attacker-induced resource exhaustion will overwhelm the organization before corrective action is taken.
Early notification of anomalous resource consumption or system malfunctions enables throttling or isolation before availability is lost.
Specifying log storage limits and rotation procedures reduces the risk that unbounded log growth will exhaust disk or memory resources and cause denial of service.
Resource-utilization monitoring and alerting on bottlenecks or overloads limits the impact of denial-of-service or resource-exhaustion attacks.
A.8.20 implements network-level protections (firewalls, segmentation, protocol hardening, monitoring, authentication of systems/devices) that can limit abuse of a resource-consuming weakness but do not stop the weakness from being exploitable; the flaw remains present in the product and can still be triggered from an authorized or internal context.
Monitoring network service usage and applying controls to restrict access when necessary limits an attacker’s ability to consume excessive resources through unrestricted or unauthenticated service calls.
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-400, a class-level weakness. Rules are authored against its narrower children: CWE-770.