Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21657

High

Published: 25 May 2021

Published
25 May 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.0th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21657 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Jenkins Filesystem Trigger. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 37.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Jenkins Filesystem Trigger Plugin 0.40 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

jenkins
filesystem trigger
≤ 0.40

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References