High
Security advisory
Jenkins Filesystem Trigger Plugin 0.40 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-21657
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Jenkins Filesystem Trigger Plugin 0.40 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.
osv:CVE-2021-21657
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.810312812Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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