Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-23897 is a critical-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data Obfuscation (T1001); ranked in the top 0.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
Jenkins 2.441 and earlier, along with LTS 2.426.2 and earlier, contains a vulnerability in its CLI command parser. The parser fails to disable a feature that substitutes an argument beginning with '@' followed by a file path with the contents of that file on the Jenkins controller file system. This path traversal issue is tracked as CWE-22 and CWE-27 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8.
Unauthenticated attackers can supply crafted CLI arguments over the network to read arbitrary files on the controller. Successful exploitation grants access to sensitive configuration data, credentials, and other file contents, enabling further compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability without any user interaction or authentication.
The Jenkins security advisory for SECURITY-3314 and related references describe the affected component and direct administrators to upgrade to patched releases. Public exploit code and scanning tools have been published, and the CVE maintains a high EPSS score with a peak of 0.9735, indicating sustained exploitation interest after disclosure.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-0270
Vulnerability Data
Jenkins 2.441 and earlier, LTS 2.426.2 and earlier does not disable a feature of its CLI command parser that replaces an '@' character followed by a file path in an argument with the file's contents, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read…
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arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 19 August 2024
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V5.3.2
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces the intended directory access authorizations that path traversal would otherwise bypass.
Input validation directly neutralizes special path elements before pathname construction occurs.
Least privilege reduces the impact of any unauthorized file access obtained via traversal.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Vulnerability identification processes will discover path traversal weaknesses during code or configuration review.
Least-privilege file permissions and access enforcement can limit the damage from a successful traversal.
Patching/maintenance can remediate known path-traversal flaws in deployed software (partial prevention of exploitability) but does nothing to stop the coding defect from being introduced in the first place.
Secure SDLC practices directly require input validation and path sanitization that prevent directory traversal flaws.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.