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CVE-2022-26138

9.8 criticalKEVEPSS 98%

Critical (9.8) in Atlassian Confluence. In CISA KEV since 2022-07-29. EPSS 98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CISA KEV
listed 2022-07-29, due 2022-08-19
CWE
CWE-798
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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