
CVE-2023-22515 Confluence BAC: Nation-State Zero-Day
CVE-2023-22515 is a maximum-severity broken access control vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. An unauthenticated external attacker can reach Confluence's setup endpoint on a fully configured instance and create a new administrator account, gaining complete control without credentials. Microsoft attributed active exploitation to Storm-0062 (a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor) beginning September 14, 2023, three weeks before Atlassian's advisory.


