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CVE-2021-21687 (GCVE-0-2021-21687)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-04 16:30 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:23
VLAI
Summary
Jenkins 2.318 and earlier, LTS 2.303.2 and earlier does not check agent-to-controller access to create symbolic links when unarchiving a symbolic link in FilePath#untar.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Jenkins project Jenkins Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2.318 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ LTS 2.303.2 (custom)
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