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Atlassian warns of critical file-access flaw in Jira, Confluence
Atlassian is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21589, that can be exploited for arbitrary file-access in multiple self-hosted Data Center products, including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket.
Summary
Atlassian is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21589, that can be exploited for arbitrary file-access in multiple self-hosted Data Center products, including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket. The security issue allows an unauthenticated attacker to access specific files within an affected application's web root directory. However, exploitation requires knowing the exact name of the file and path.
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