critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2021-26084Confluence Server & Data Center — OGNL Injection (2021)

Older Confluence Server and Data Center releases evaluate attacker-supplied text as program code, letting an unauthenticated visitor execute commands on the wiki server. Ransomware crews are known to use it.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Update Confluence to 6.13.23, 7.4.11, 7.11.6 or 7.12.5; if the instance ever faced the internet unpatched, hunt for web shells and stray processes before declaring it clean.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
100%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2021-08-30
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190
Severity
critical

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

Attacker needsNetwork access to a self-hosted Confluence instance in an affected version range. No credentials needed.

Fixed inConfluence 6.13.23, Confluence 7.4.11, Confluence 7.11.6, Confluence 7.12.5

Behind the card

4 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
title, summary, cvss, severity, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.prerequisites, exploitation.exploit_available, remediation, referencesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh
exploitation.known_exploited, summary, recommended_actioncisa.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2021-26084 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07