CVE-2022-26138
Actively exploited. CVE-2022-26138 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-07-29) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2022-26138 is indexed in GitHub PoC and Nuclei. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
Atlassian Questions For Confluence App has hard-coded credentials, exposing the username and password in plaintext. A remote unauthenticated attacker can use these credentials to log into Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Hard-coded credentials expose username and password in plaintext.
- Who is affected
- Users of the Atlassian Questions For Confluence App.
- Urgency
- Immediate action is required due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Change hard-coded credentials and update to the latest version.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2022-26138 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- GitHub PoCPublic proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub reference this CVE.look it up ↗
- NucleiA nuclei-templates detection/PoC template exists for this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2022-26138: Atlassian Questions For Confluence App Hard-coded Credentials Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-07-29
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