CVE-2024-21683This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 5.2 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This RCE…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 88.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 5.2 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.2, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code which has high impact to confidentiality, high 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. 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 found internally.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Atlassian Confluence Administrator Code Macro Remote Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2024_21683Rank excellentdisclosed 21 May 2024
Nuclei templates1 template
- Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server - Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-21683.yamlSeverity high
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By atlassian
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| atlassianCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 88.3% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
Atlassian · Confluence Data Center
- affected 8.9.0
- affected 8.8.0 to 8.8.1
- affected 8.7.1 to 8.7.2
- affected 8.6.0 to 8.6.2
- affected 8.5.0 to 8.5.8
- affected 8.4.0 to 8.4.5
- affected 8.3.0 to 8.3.4
- affected 8.2.0 to 8.2.3
- affected 8.1.0 to 8.1.4
- affected 8.0.0 to 8.0.4
- affected 7.20.0 to 7.20.3
- affected 7.19.0 to 7.19.21
- unaffected 8.9.1 to 8.9.2
- unaffected 8.5.9 to 8.5.10
- unaffected 7.19.22 to 7.19.23
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-19299 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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