CVE-2017-9505: Atlassian Confluence

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Atlassian Confluence starting with 4.3.0 before 6.2.1 did not check if a user had permission to view a page when creating a workbox notification about new comments. An attacker who can login to Confluence could receive workbox notifications, which contain the content of comments, for comments added to a page after they started watching it even if they do not have permission to view the page itself.

Affected products

• Atlassian Confluence: from 4.3, before 6.2.1 (fixed in 6.2.1)

Published 2017-06-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.