CVE-2015-8399

medium

Published 2016-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Atlassian Confluence before 5.8.17 allows remote authenticated users to read configuration files via the decoratorName parameter to (1) spaces/viewdefaultdecorator.action or (2) admin/viewdefaultdecorator.action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

53%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39170 webapps xml

Sebastian Perez · 2016-01-05

Atlassian Confluence 5.2/5.8.14/5.8.15 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
atlassian	confluence	`{"endIncluding":"5.8.16"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.