Local Privilege Escalation via DLL hijack - CVE-2021-43940

Affected versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center allow authenticated local attackers to achieve elevated privileges on the local system via a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in the Confluence installer.

This vulnerability only affects installations of Confluence Server and Data Center on Windows.

The affected versions are before version 7.4.10, and from version 7.5.0 before 7.12.3.

Affected versions:

• version < 7.4.10
• 7.5.0 ≤ version < 7.12.3

Fixed versions:

• 7.4.10
• 7.12.3
• 7.13.0