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UK Cyber Defence
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CVE-2026-70427

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…

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 0.33%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.33% probability · 26th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-59
Affected
jenkins/jenkins
Source
jenkinsci-cert@googlegroups.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.