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CVE-2021-21609 (GCVE-0-2021-21609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-13 15:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:16
VLAI
Summary
Jenkins 2.274 and earlier, LTS 2.263.1 and earlier does not correctly match requested URLs to the list of always accessible paths, allowing attackers without Overall/Read permission to access some URLs as if they did have Overall/Read permission.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Jenkins project Jenkins Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2.274 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ LTS 2.263.1 (custom)
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