CVE-2024-23897: Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Is it exploited?
Yes. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 19 Aug 2024, 208 days after the CVE record was published.
- How likely is exploitation in the next 30 days?
- 100%
EPSS score, percentile 100 of all scored records
- How severe?
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS v3.1 base score, from CISA's enrichment of the record
- What should I do?
CISA deadline 9 Sep 2024. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Which versions are affected?
Unaffected before 1.606; 2.442; 2.426.3; 2.440.1
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of 28 Oct 2026; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of 28 Oct 2026; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
What to do
Required action, set by CISA
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
CISA due date for this action: 9 September 2024.
Advisories and patches
Linked from CISA's catalog entry
- https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2024-01-24/#SECURITY-3314
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23897
Affected products and versions
As listed in the CVE record.
| Status | Versions |
|---|---|
| Unaffected | before 1.606 |
| Unaffected | 2.442 |
| Unaffected | 2.426.3 |
| Unaffected | 2.440.1 |
Versions not listed are: affected.
Versions the record lists as unaffected: 2.442, 2.426.3, 2.440.1.
Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
About this vulnerability
Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers limited read access to certain files, which can lead to code execution.
Summary: CISA's KEV catalog, as of 28 Oct 2026.
- CISA added CVE-2024-23897 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 19 Aug 2024.
- CISA marks it as known to be used in ransomware campaigns.
- The due date CISA sets for the required action is 9 Sep 2024.
- The CVE record was published on 24 Jan 2024, 208 days before it was added to KEV.
- The CVE record carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical), taken from CISA's enrichment of the record.
- FIRST's EPSS model puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 100% (percentile 100), as of 28 Oct 2026.
- CISA's SSVC assessment in the CVE record: exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact total.
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of 28 Oct 2026; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
Description
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 arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.
Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
Weakness
- CWE-27: Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'
CWE and CAPEC are maintained by MITRE; the entries are those named in the CVE record and the KEV entry.
Timeline
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 24 Jan 2024 | CVE record published |
| 19 Aug 2024 | Added to CISA KEV |
| 9 Sep 2024 | CISA due date for the required action |
| 21 Oct 2025 | CVE record last updated |
References
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- CVE-2019-1003030: Jenkins Matrix Project Plugin Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2018-1000861: Jenkins Stapler Web Framework Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability