Is CVE-2024-21677 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-21677 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-21677?

CVE-2024-21677 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-21677?

CVE-2024-21677 has an EPSS score of 0.93% (56th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2024-21677?

Upgrade confluence data center to 8.8.1 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-21677

HIGH

8.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

This High severity Path Traversal vulnerability was introduced in version 6.13.0 of Confluence Data Center. This Path Traversal vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, allows an unauthenticated attacker to exploit an undefinable vulnerability which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires 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: Data Center Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to the latest version and that Confluence Server customers upgrade to the latest 8.5.x LTS 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 reported via our Bug Bounty program.

CWE-22Path Traversal

How to fix

Remediation Available

confluence data centerNVD

Affected:>= 8.6.0, < 8.8.1Fixed in:8.8.1CVE-2024-21677derived from NVD

confluence serverNVD

Affected:>= 7.20.0, < 8.5.7Fixed in:8.5.7CVE-2024-21677derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.93%probability of exploitation in 30 days

56thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 56% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory2

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-03-13.