This High severity XXE (XML External Entity Injection) org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 8.5 of Confluence Data Center and Server.

This org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, no impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:

• Confluence Data Center and Server 8.5: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 8.5.21

• Confluence Data Center and Server 9.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.2.3

See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: A flaw was found in org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:1.9.x libraries. XML external entity vulnerabilities similar CVE-2016-3720 also affects codehaus jackson-mapper-asl libraries but in different classes.