PT-2020-10423 · Apache+2 · Apache Tomcat+2

Peleg Hadar · Published 2020-02-06 · Updated 2021-12-13 · CVE-2019-20406

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Confluence versions prior to 7.0.5 Confluence versions 7.1.0 through 7.1.0

Description The issue allows local system attackers with permission to write a DLL file in a directory in the global path environmental variable to inject code and escalate their privileges via a DLL hijacking vulnerability. This occurs when using Tomcat in Confluence on the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Recommendations For Confluence versions prior to 7.0.5, update to version 7.0.5 or later. For Confluence versions 7.1.0, update to version 7.1.1 or later.

Fix

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-20406

Affected Products

Confluence

Windows

Apache Tomcat

References · 4

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-20406 · Security Note
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-20406 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20406 · Security Note