Jenkins — security advisory
Jenkins 2.587 and earlier, LTS 2.580.1 and earlier checks for symbolic links in the path of an extracted file only before creating its parent directories, not immediately before writing it, and allows symbolic links in artifacts to replace existing files or empty directories, allowing attackers with Item/Configure permission to write files to arbitrary locations on the Jenkins controller file system.
- Products
- Jenkins
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-117617
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Jenkins 2.587 and earlier, LTS 2.580.1 and earlier checks for symbolic links in the path of an extracted file only before creating its parent directories, not immediately before writing it, and allows symbolic links in artifacts to replace existing files or empty directories, allowing attackers with Item/Configure permission to write files to arbitrary locations on the Jenkins controller file system.
cve:CVE-2026-117617
Jenkins
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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