SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) org.springframework:spring-web Dependency in Confluence Data Center and Server

This High severity org.springframework:spring-web Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 1.0 of Confluence Data Center and Server.

This org.springframework:spring-web Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.1 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, no impact to availability, and requires 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:
h2. Data Center

Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to the latest version. If you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:
||Affected versions||Fixed versions||
|8.9.0|8.9.1|
|from 8.8.0 to 8.8.1|8.9.1|
|from 8.7.0 to 8.7.2|8.9.1|
|from 8.6.0 to 8.6.2|8.9.1|
|from 8.5.0 to 8.5.8 LTS|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.4.0 to 8.4.5|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.3.0 to 8.3.4|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.2.0 to 8.2.3|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.1.0 to 8.1.4|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.0.0 to 8.0.4|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 7.20.0 to 7.20.3|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 7.19.0 to 7.19.22 LTS|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|
|from 7.18.0 to 7.18.3|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|
|from 7.17.0 to 7.17.5|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|
|Any earlier versions|8.9.1 or 8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|

h2. Server

Atlassian recommends that Confluence Server customers upgrade to the latest version. If you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:
||Affected versions||Fixed versions||
|from 8.5.0 to 8.5.8 LTS|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.4.0 to 8.4.5|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.3.0 to 8.3.4|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.2.0 to 8.2.3|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.1.0 to 8.1.4|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 8.0.0 to 8.0.4|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 7.20.0 to 7.20.3|8.5.9 LTS recommended|
|from 7.19.0 to 7.19.22 LTS|8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|
|from 7.18.0 to 7.18.3|8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|
|from 7.17.0 to 7.17.5|8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|
|Any earlier versions|8.5.9 LTS recommended or 7.19.23 LTS|

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: Applications that use UriComponentsBuilder to parse an externally provided URL (e.g. through a query parameter) AND perform validation checks on the host of the parsed URL may be vulnerable to a open redirect [https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/601.html]  attack or to a SSRF attack if the URL is used after passing validation checks.