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CVE-2023-22515
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-10-05), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. It is also listed on ENISA's EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue (Source: ENISA EUVD). NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2023-26655 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 10.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 100EG Risk 100/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity100% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high. - EPSS PROB
- 99%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 99% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and ENISA EU KEV (Source: ENISA EUVD) and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
ENISA EU KEV: listed January 23, 2025, reported by cnw.
Source: ENISA EUVD (EU Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue), reproduced with acknowledgement. How a listing moves the EG score
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Check all affected Confluence instances for evidence of compromise per vendor instructions and report any positive findings to CISA.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/cve-2023-22515-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-confluence-data-center-and-server-1295682276.html · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22515
Published
October 4, 2023
Last Modified
March 25, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-22515CVE-2023-22515 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server | Atlassian Support | Atlassian Documentation
https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1295682276FAQ for CVE-2023-22515 | Atlassian knowledge base | Atlassian Support
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/KB/FAQ+for+CVE-2023-22515Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 107× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 900 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 800 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 18:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 18:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-31 17:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-30 17:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-26 14:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-25 13:46 UTCENISA EU KEV listingEUVD-2023-26655 · listed January 23, 2025 · reported by cnw · Source: ENISA EUVD
- 2026-10-24 20:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 20:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-22 19:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-21 18:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 18:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-20 17:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 17:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-19 17:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 17:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-17 12:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-13 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 10:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-10 19:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-10 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-07 03:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-06 23:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-06 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 19:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
- 2026-10-06 15:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-06 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-05 17:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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- 2026-10-04 19:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g458-xvmc-qg2r · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
Publicly available exploits
(15 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 Metasploit modules, 10 GitHub PoCs), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 2 GitHub checker repositories. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.
- Metasploitauxiliary/admin/http/atlassian_confluence_auth_bypass✓ verifiedPublished Oct 19, 2023
Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Authentication Bypass via Broken Access Control
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/multi/http/atlassian_confluence_rce_cve_2023_22515✓ verifiedPublished Oct 19, 2023
Atlassian Confluence Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - GitHub checkerspareack/CVE-2023-22515-NSEPublished Jul 18, 2024
Vulnerability checking tool via Nmap Scripting Engine
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCaaaademo/Confluence-EvilJarPublished Nov 9, 2023
配合 CVE-2023-22515 后台上传jar包实现RCE
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCAIex-3/confluence-hackPublished Oct 30, 2023
CVE-2023-22515
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCyoucannotseemeagain/CVE-2023-22515_RCEPublished Oct 20, 2023
Confluence后台rce
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCLe1a/CVE-2023-22515Published Oct 13, 2023
Confluence Data Center & Server 权限提升漏洞 Exploit
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCK4ptor/CVE-2023-22515Published Oct 12, 2023
Confluence Unauthorized Administrator User Addition Exploitation Script
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCs1incere/CVE-2023-22515Published Oct 12, 2023
Confluence Unauthorized Administrator User Addition Exploitation Script
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCad-calcium/CVE-2023-22515Published Oct 11, 2023
Confluence未授权添加管理员用户(CVE-2023-22515)漏洞利用工具
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