CVE-2026-70427 (GCVE-0-2026-70427)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 17:40 – Updated: 2026-08-05 18:25
VLAI
Summary
Jenkins 2.575 and earlier, LTS 2.568.1 and earlier does not safely handle symbolic links with effectively empty names during the extraction of `.tar` and `.tar.gz` archives, allowing attackers able to control agent processes to provide crafted archives to the controller to write files to arbitrary locations on the file system, restricted only by file system access permissions of the user running Jenkins.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Jenkins Project Jenkins Unaffected: 2.576 , < * (maven)
Unaffected: 2.568.2 , < 2.568.* (maven)
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