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CVE-2024-23897

CRITICAL9.8
CISA KEV

Published 2024-01-24 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source jenkinsci-cert@googlegroups.com

Summary

CVE-2024-23897 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI). CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 19, 2024, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by September 9, 2024. CISA also lists it as known to be used in ransomware campaigns, so it should be prioritised accordingly. Jenkins has 6 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 1 of them linked to ransomware.

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Description

Jenkins 2.441 and earlier, LTS 2.426.2 and earlier does not disable a feature of its CLI command parser that replaces an '@' character followed by a file path in an argument with the file's contents, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-22CWE-27

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Jenkins — Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI)

Name: Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) Path Traversal Vulnerability

Date added: 2024-08-19 · Due: 2024-09-09

USED IN RANSOMWARE

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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