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CVE-2021-21689

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21689 is a critical access control vulnerability affecting Jenkins 2.318 and earlier, and LTS 2.303.2 and earlier, where the FilePath#unzip and FilePath#untar functions lacked proper agent-to-controller access control. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality and integrity impact over the network with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is currently no public exploit code available, no evidence of active exploitation, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.318CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.303.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
< 2.319CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0142 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-coreFixed in: 2.303.3
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-coreFixed in: 2.319
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.303.3.1637597493-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.303.3.1637597018-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.303.3.1637596565-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.303.3.1637595827-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.303.3.1637698110-1.el7
View patch
jenkinsvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-j3cq-h6vh-gx7fcritical

Multiple vulnerabilities allow bypassing path filtering of agent-to-controller access control in Jenkins

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2021-21689Important

jenkins: FilePath#unzip and FilePath#untar were not subject to any access control

Nov 4, 2021

References

jenkins.io / security/advisory/2021-11-04
Vendor Advisory