HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-6668

Confluence Server vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.7%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The Atlassian Hipchat Integration Plugin for Bitbucket Server 6.26.0 before 6.27.5, 6.28.0 before 7.3.7, and 7.4.0 before 7.8.17; Confluence HipChat plugin 6.26.0 before 7.8.17; and HipChat for JIRA plugin 6.26.0 before 7.8.17 allows remote attackers to obtain the secret key for communicating with HipChat instances by reading unspecified pages.
Affected vendor
Atlassian
Affected product
Confluence Server
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information
Published
2017-01-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-6668

  • Confirm whether Atlassian Confluence Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-6668.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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