CVE-2021-43940 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2021-43940

Affected versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center allow...

Vulnerability Description

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

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Confluence Server, Confluence Data Center
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified, 7.5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 15th, 2022
Last Modified: October 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-427

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Persistence
T1574.001 DLL Search Order Hijacking
Privilege Escalation
T1547 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
Persistence
T1036 Masquerading
Defense Evasion
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution