Confluence - Path traversal vulnerability - CVE-2019-3398 - Server Ed. 6.4.2
Asked by Pedro Tome:

Hello,

I have confluence **Server Ed 6.4.2** with SEN Licence

To resolve security issue "**Confluence - Path traversal vulnerability - CVE-2019-3398**" i am force to upgrade Confluence, but i cant ugrade to none of the secure versions unless i pay new licence, and i cant work with this version because its insecure.

How can I work with the system if I cant upgrade and a cant stay in this version because of security issue?

it seems only fair to release some kind of fix for free

(not the temporary workarround)

Best regards


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Pedro,

The [security advisory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2019-03-20-966660264.html) details how to mitigate the attack vector for this vulnerability. If you are not on a mitigated version and can't upgrade, using the "temporary workaround" is what you need to do. That is the fix for free.

From our [licensing FAQ](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#serverlicenses-1) regarding security:
> Your initial purchase entitles you to perpetual use of the software, and includes 12 months of software maintenance -- access to new software releases/enhancements, our world-class Support team, critical bug fixes, and **security patches** -- from the date of purchase. While renewing your software maintenance annually is optional, it is strongly encouraged in order to ensure continuous access to all of the benefits listed above.

Based on your license tier of 10 users, you are looking at a cost of $10 USD /yr to renew your support maintenance. You can get started renewing at [my.atlassian.com](https://my.atlassian.com) and use the renewed license on a recent release of Confluence.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: rodolfo
body: By the way I think it's worth pointing that after you buy a license there isn't a security fix just for the 6.4.x "branch".

I found it confusing initially because on the [EOL policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-support-end-of-life-policy-201851003.html) 6.4 is marked until Sep 6, 2019 but it seems that doesn't cover security updates.  
Security updates for non Enterprise releases are only available within the first 6 months when the release was released. See [Security Bugfix Policy](https://www.atlassian.com/trust/security/bug-fix-policy) for more info.

[@Pedro Tome](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2666436) Ideally pick an enterprise release which gets you security updates for 2 years if you choose to upgrade.

Hope this helps :)

Cheers,  
rodolfo


author: Pedro Tome
body: Thanks for the reply.

i will consider stop using Confluence and go to another solution

Altassian team response is posting the licensing FAQ regarding security...

I keep my opinion that Altassian must present a solution, not a "temporary workaround" to response this big security issue.

Thanks again


author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Pedro,

We do appreciate your concern over the recent security issues. Your response is taken seriously and I will personally contact you via email to help resolve this matter.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers  
Senior Community Engineer


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