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Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products

A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October 5, rated it 9.3 out of 10, and

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products
First reported
Oct 06, 2026 06:58 UTC
Last reported
Oct 06, 2026 06:58 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:52 UTC
Record ID
1084199a7bf75808109baee2f3737d1b977ce8a36056e8a1eef1c56521ca88b1

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Source observations

src_636032c91a0b4c9a97

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Oct 06, 2026 06:58 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:52 UTC

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

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  • src_636032c91a0b4c9a97Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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