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.
History

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Jenkins
Jenkins jenkins
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Jenkins
Jenkins jenkins

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Arbitrary File Write via Unsafe Tar Extraction in Jenkins jenkins: Jenkins: Arbitrary file write via crafted archives and symbolic links
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Arbitrary File Write via Unsafe Tar Extraction in Jenkins

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Jenkins Tar Extraction Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary File Write
Weaknesses CWE-22
CWE-749

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Jenkins Project
Jenkins Project jenkins
Vendors & Products Jenkins Project
Jenkins Project jenkins

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Jenkins Tar Extraction Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary File Write
Weaknesses CWE-22
CWE-749

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-59
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: jenkins

Published: 2026-08-05T17:40:27.698Z

Updated: 2026-08-05T18:25:36.015Z

Reserved: 2026-08-04T14:13:20.602Z

Link: CVE-2026-70427

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-05T18:20:32.981Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-08-05T18:17:12.353

Modified: 2026-09-08T20:17:23.773

Link: CVE-2026-70427

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-08-05T17:40:27Z

Links: CVE-2026-70427 - Bugzilla