CVE-2019-3398

Confluence Server and Data Center had a path traversal vulnerability in the downloadallattachments resource. A remote attacker who has permission to add attachments to pages and / or blogs or to create a new space or a personal space or who has 'Admin' permissions for a space can exploit this path traversal vulnerability to write files to arbitrary locations which can lead to remote code execution on systems that run a vulnerable version of Confluence Server or Data Center. All versions of Confluence Server from 2.0.0 before 6.6.13 (the fixed version for 6.6.x), from 6.7.0 before 6.12.4 (the fixed version for 6.12.x), from 6.13.0 before 6.13.4 (the fixed version for 6.13.x), from 6.14.0 before 6.14.3 (the fixed version for 6.14.x), and from 6.15.0 before 6.15.2 are affected by this vulnerability.

Affected

Atlassian · Confluence

CVSS v3.1 NVD

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

9.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

97.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

CISA KEV

added 2021-11-03

Nuclei

high · CWE-22

Published

2019-04-18

Updated

2025-10-21

Proof-of-concept exploits (3)

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155235/Atlassian-Confluence-6.15.1-Directory-Travers…
• 132231g/CVE-2019-33980★ · 2024-01-28
• superevr/cve-2019-339815★ · 2019-06-06

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-3398.yaml

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47621

Security advisories

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58102
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152616/Confluence-Server-Data-Center-Path-Traversal…
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155245/Atlassian-Confluence-6.15.1-Directory-Travers…
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108067
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/33

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-7602