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CVE-2026-117616

high

Jenkins 2.587 and earlier, LTS 2.580.1 and earlier provides an HTTP endpoint that loads agents by name without validating the name, allowing attackers with Ove…

Vendor / product: Jenkins — jenkins

Jenkins 2.587 and earlier, LTS 2.580.1 and earlier provides an HTTP endpoint that loads agents by name without validating the name, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to load any config.xml file on the controller file system as an agent configuration, and to overwrite an arbitrary config.xml file when that agent is saved, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

CVSS
8.8
8.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-28 17:18
Modified: 2026-11-02 15:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:35 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

jenkins / jenkins <2.580.2, <2.588

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2026-10-28/#SECURITY-4188
Patch / mitigation: https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2026-10-28/#SECURITY-4188

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:35 UTC · record ↗

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