Medium
Security advisory
An incorrect permission check in Jenkins Role-based Authorization Strategy Plugin 3.1 and earlier allows attackers with Item/Read permission on nested items to access them, even if they lack Item/Read permission for parent folders.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-21624
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An incorrect permission check in Jenkins Role-based Authorization Strategy Plugin 3.1 and earlier allows attackers with Item/Read permission on nested items to access them, even if they lack Item/Read permission for parent folders.
osv:CVE-2021-21624
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:23.148302078Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2021-03-18/#SECURITY-2182"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430843,
"published_at": "2021-03-18T14:15:13.35+00:00"
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