Vulnerability · Published May 16, 2023 · Assigned by jenkins

CVE-2023-32979

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect permission assignment in Jenkins Email Extension Plugin from Jenkins Project. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 56.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Jenkins Email Extension Plugin does not perform a permission check in a method implementing form validation, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to check for the existence of files in the email-templates/ directory in the Jenkins home directory on the controller file system.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:email-ext	2.96.1	GHSA-6gp4-2f92-j2w5

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Jenkins Project	Jenkins Email Extension Plugin	see references

Weakness: CWE-732 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Jenkins Security Advisory 2023-05-16 vendor-advisory