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ghsa-23xf-wg9r-49fr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-07-21 00:00

Modified

2025-10-22 00:32

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The Atlassian Questions For Confluence app for Confluence Server and Data Center creates a Confluence user account in the confluence-users group with the username disabledsystemuser and a hardcoded password. A remote, unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded password could exploit this to log into Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group. This user account is created when installing versions 2.7.34, 2.7.35, and 3.0.2 of the app.

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CVE-2022-26138 (GCVE-0-2022-26138)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-07-20 17:25

Modified

2025-10-21 23:15

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials ()

Summary

The Atlassian Questions For Confluence app for Confluence Server and Data Center creates a Confluence user account in the confluence-users group with the username disabledsystemuser and a hardcoded password. A remote, unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded password could exploit this to log into Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group. This user account is created when installing versions 2.7.34, 2.7.35, and 3.0.2 of the app.

References

URL

Tags

	https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-79483	x_refsource_MISC
	https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2022-07-20-1142446709.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Atlassian	Questions For Confluence	Version: 2.7.34 Version: 2.7.35 Version: 3.0.2

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