Hackers exploit critical Atlassian flaw after public PoC release

Reported by BleepingComputer (Bill Toulas)

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Oct 2026, 14:49 CET

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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589) affecting multiple Atlassian product families, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, is being exploited in attacks that do not require authentication.

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