Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22166

HighDDoS

Published: 21 October 2025

Published
21 October 2025
Modified
05 December 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0009 26.1th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22166 is a high-severity Amplification (CWE-405) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 26.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

This High severity DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability was introduced in version 2.0 of Confluence Data Center. This DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, allows an attacker to cause a resource to be unavailable for…

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its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network. Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center 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 8.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.5.25 Confluence Data Center and Server 9.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.2.7 Confluence Data Center and Server 10.0: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.0.2 See the release notes ([https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html]). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives]). This vulnerability was reported via our Atlassian (Internal) program.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

atlassian
confluence data center
8.5.0 — 8.5.25 · 9.2.0 — 9.2.7 · 10.0.0 — 10.0.2
atlassian
confluence server
8.5.0 — 8.5.25 · 9.2.0 — 9.2.7 · 10.0.0 — 10.0.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-405

Reduces impact of amplification attacks that overwhelm the primary site by allowing operations to shift to an equivalent alternate site.

addresses: CWE-405

Alternate services reduce the impact of amplification attacks that exhaust primary telecommunications resources.

addresses: CWE-405

Amplification attacks that exhaust the primary path are mitigated by the existence of an independent alternate path for command traffic.

addresses: CWE-405

Employs controls that mitigate amplification attacks causing asymmetric resource use.

addresses: CWE-405

Limits amplification effects by controlling how resources are allocated under high-volume or recursive load.

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