Improper access control in Atlassian Activity Streams
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
Several rest inline action resources of Atlassian Activity Streams before version 6.3.0 allows remote authenticated attackers to watch any Confluence page & receive notifications when comments are added to the watched page, and vote & watch JIRA issues that they do not have access to, although they will not receive notifications for the issue, via missing permission checks.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-9513
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hv3r-96x4-645h
- 2026-10-13 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
Sources
- CVE-2017-9513 · CVE Program
- CVE-2017-9513 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hv3r-96x4-645h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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