CVE-2026-21589 Details
h3. Summary

This is a vulnerability in Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center. Crowd Data Center, Crucible and Fisheye. This Arbitrary File Access vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to access specific files within the web application root directory in affected versions. Exploitation requires prior knowledge of the target file's exact name and path; this vulnerability does not allow attackers to enumerate or list directory contents. In some configurations, there may be some sensitive files that make this highly severe.  

h3. Context

This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to access specific files within the web application root directory in affected versions.

h3. Details:

* The vulnerability must be addressed for affected versions of:
Bitbucket Data Center, introduced in version >= 4.6.0, fix versions: 9.4.26, 10.2.8, 10.5.1
Confluence Data Center, introduced in version >= 5.10.0, fix versions 9.2.26, 10.2.19
Crowd Data Center, introduced in version >= 2.11.0, fix versions 6.3.7, 7.0.3, 7.1.1, 7.2.4
Jira Software Data Center, introduced in version >= 7.1.0, fix versions 9.12.40, 10.3.26, 11.3.12
Jira Service Management Data Center, introduced in version >= 3.1.0, fix versions 5.12.40, 10.3.26, 11.3.12
Bamboo Data Center >= 7.0.1, fix versions 10.2.24, 12.1.12
Crucible, fix versions 4.9.15
Fisheye, fix version 4.9.15
* Exploitation requires prior knowledge of the target file's exact name and path.
* The vulnerability does not include the capability to enumerate or list directory contents.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-21589
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
12.71 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (96th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2026-21589
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
7.5 High
Products affected by CVE-2026-21589

CVE-2026-21589 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 6 60.00%
DE 2 20.00%
HU 1 10.00%
IN 1 10.00%

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CVE-2026-21589 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 8 80.00%
Telecommunications 2 20.00%

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