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CVE-2024-23897: Jenkins CLI Arbitrary File Read

Critical CVSS 9.8 CISA KEV

Remediation summary

Recommended action
Upgrade Jenkins weekly to version 2.442 or later. For Jenkins LTS, upgrade to version 2.426.3 or later; the advisory specifically lists 2.426.3 and 2.440.1 as fixed release lines.
Affected evidence
2 source affected-product statements
Priority
Known exploited (CISA KEV); Critical severity; CVSS 9.8
Evidence checked

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What is CVE-2024-23897?

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.

CVE
CVE-2024-23897
Source title
Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) Path Traversal Vulnerability
Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE published
2024-01-24
Source updated
2026-06-17T07:13:49Z
Catalog checked
2026-08-24T07:01:48Z
CISA KEV
Known exploited
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-27
CNA / source
jenkinsci-cert@googlegroups.com
Record status
Analyzed
Catalog quality
metadata-backed

Known exploitation and required action

CISA lists CVE-2024-23897 in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Treat this as direct exploitation evidence when prioritizing the change.

CISA entry
Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) Path Traversal Vulnerability
Vendor / project
Jenkins
Product
Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI)
Date added
2024-08-19
CISA due date
2024-09-09
Known ransomware use
Known

CISA required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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Affected products and version ranges

  • Jenkins Project / Jenkins
    • The source marks this product affected by default.
    • Affected-status source: jenkinsci-cert@googlegroups.com.
  • jenkins / jenkins
    • The source marks this product affected by default.
    • Affected-status source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0.

AI-assisted evidence synthesis

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Business risk

Critical risk: an unauthenticated attacker may read arbitrary files from the Jenkins controller through the CLI parser. The Jenkins project also documents attack paths that can enable remote code execution when additional instance-specific conditions are met, including access to binary secrets and certain Jenkins features.

Source-specific exposure conditions

  • Jenkins CLI access is reachable by an attacker.
  • The Jenkins instance is running a weekly release up to and including 2.441, or an LTS release up to and including 2.426.2.
  • The vulnerable CLI argument-parser behavior remains enabled. In affected releases, an @ character followed by a file path can be expanded to the file contents.
  • The most severe impacts require additional conditions that vary by attack path, such as Overall/Read permission, enabled Resource Root URLs, reachable CLI WebSocket access, retrievable binary secrets, or control of build-log output.

Source-specific remediation

  • Upgrade Jenkins weekly to version 2.442 or later.
  • For Jenkins LTS, upgrade to version 2.426.3 or later; the advisory specifically lists 2.426.3 and 2.440.1 as fixed release lines.
  • If immediate upgrade is not possible, disable Jenkins CLI access as the recommended temporary workaround, then complete the upgrade.
  • Do not re-enable the vulnerable @-file expansion behavior on a network-accessible instance; the advisory states that setting hudson.cli.CLICommand.allowAtSyntax to true is strongly discouraged in that situation.
  • After remediation, review controller exposure, authentication and authorization settings, CLI reachability, Resource Root URL usage, and access to controller-held secrets as precautionary measures. These reviews are warranted because the vendor documents impacts beyond file confidentiality.

Source-specific verification

  • Confirm the running Jenkins core version is 2.442 or later for weekly releases, or is on a fixed LTS line beginning with 2.426.3 or 2.440.1, using the administrator-visible Jenkins version information.
  • Confirm that any temporary CLI-disable mitigation is active through approved administrative status or configuration review; do not validate by sending exploit-like file-expansion requests.
  • Confirm that the system does not override the fix by setting hudson.cli.CLICommand.allowAtSyntax to true, unless this is an explicitly reviewed emergency exception.
  • If assessing residual impact, review the Jenkins administrator System Information value for file.encoding as described by the vendor; this is risk assessment information, not a safe exploitability test.

Uncertainty and evidence gaps

  • The supplied product matches are generic Jenkins CPEs and do not identify the deployment’s exact weekly/LTS release or whether CLI access is externally reachable.
  • The advisory describes several possible remote-code-execution paths but states that the list is not definitive; actual impact depends on instance configuration, permissions, secrets, plugins, and reachable endpoints.
  • No deployment-specific evidence was provided for authentication configuration, Resource Root URLs, WebSocket reachability, controller operating system, character encoding, or compromise status.
  • The NVD record reflects the Jenkins CNA version ranges and fixed versions, while the Jenkins advisory is the authoritative source for remediation and operational conditions.

Claim-to-source evidence

  • Affected Product: The vulnerability affects Jenkins core CLI processing through the args4j command parser. Evidence
  • Affected Version: Jenkins weekly releases up to and including 2.441 and Jenkins LTS releases up to and including 2.426.2 are affected. Evidence
  • Exposure: The vulnerable parser expands an @ character followed by a file path into the file contents; attackers can read files from the Jenkins controller, with impact varying by permission and configuration. Evidence
  • Fixed Version: The vendor lists Jenkins weekly 2.442, LTS 2.426.3, and LTS 2.440.1 as fixed versions. Evidence
  • Remediation: Upgrade to a fixed Jenkins release; if immediate upgrading is unavailable, disable CLI access as the recommended workaround. Evidence
  • Verification: Verify the running Jenkins version against the vendor's fixed release lines and review whether the allowAtSyntax override is enabled; the vendor also identifies the administrator System Information file.encoding value as relevant to assessing severe impact. Evidence
  • Affected Version: The NVD CNA data records Jenkins as affected below weekly 2.442, below LTS 2.426.3 within the 2.426 line, and below LTS 2.440.1 within the 2.440 line. Evidence

Synthesis sources

Generation provenance

Model
gpt-5.6-luna
Generated
2026-07-20T12:17:32Z
Prompt version
2026-07-14.2
Specificity
specific
Source fingerprint
338abac5615d2274f40297fd865d4c0079f01ac8f0084440fa5b44723d93c8e9

Recorded gaps

  • generic_ecosystem

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Matched pattern: Path traversal, unsafe upload, and file handling

How to check exposure for CVE-2024-23897

  • Trace untrusted filenames, archive entries, URLs, and path segments into read, write, include, extraction, and upload operations.
  • Identify filesystem roots, mount permissions, symbolic-link behavior, archive handling, and whether uploaded content is web-accessible or executable.

Temporary containment

  • Disable affected upload, extraction, include, or file-serving features and make the target filesystem read-only where possible.

How to remediate CVE-2024-23897

  • Generate server-side storage identifiers and resolve paths beneath a fixed root using filesystem-aware containment checks.
  • Reject absolute, parent-relative, alternate-separator, device, link, and archive entries that escape the intended root.

How to verify the remediation

  • Test containment with disposable fixtures covering normalization, separators, links, archives, collisions, and case behavior.
  • Confirm every resulting path remains within the intended root after final resolution and at time of use.

Rollback

  • Restore file-handling code, storage-root configuration, upload policy, permissions, and inert tests from the captured state.

Stop and triage conditions

  • Stop if validation occurs only before a later path transformation or does not account for links and platform semantics.
  • Switch to incident response if unexpected files, modified application content, or unauthorized reads are found.

Required output

Return a reviewer-ready minimal patch with exposure evidence, authoritative fixed-version evidence, regression tests, deployed-artifact verification, rollback notes, and source links; otherwise return TRIAGE.md with the blocking decision and owner.

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References and evidence

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Security Recipes. “CVE-2024-23897: Jenkins CLI Arbitrary File Read” Last updated . Canonical URL: https://security-recipes.ai/cve/CVE-2024-23897/.

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