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.

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First Time appeared Jenkins Project
Jenkins Project jenkins
Vendors & Products Jenkins Project
Jenkins Project jenkins

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Title Jenkins Tar Extraction Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary File Write
Weaknesses CWE-22
CWE-749

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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'}

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{'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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: jenkins

Published:

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

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-05T20:15:12Z

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