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CVE-2023-24449 — pwauth

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-24449 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) Path Traversal vulnerability in org.jvnet.hudson.plugins:pwauth. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.

Path traversal vulnerability in Jenkins PWauth Security Realm Plugin

Also known asGHSA-5xpc-c4xv-7w62
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 5, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2023-24449.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk+0.02%
Lower risk than most CVEs69th percentile — riskier than 69% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.16%0.68%1.20%1.72%0.7%1.2%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
☕org.jvnet.hudson.plugins:pwauth

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Maven packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

Jenkins PWauth Security Realm Plugin 0.4 and earlier does not restrict the names of files in methods implementing form validation, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to check for the existence of an attacker-specified file path on the Jenkins controller file system.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
☕Mavenorg.jvnet.hudson.plugins:pwauthall versionsNo fix

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
pwauth security realmjenkins
≤ 0.4
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.jvnet.hudson.plugins:pwauth, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    The records we use list no patched version of org.jvnet.hudson.plugins:pwauth for CVE-2023-24449. Check the maintainer's advisory, and where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.

Frequently Asked Questions

Jenkins PWauth Security Realm Plugin 0.4 and earlier does not restrict the names of files in methods implementing form validation, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to check for the existence of an attacker-specified file path on the Jenkins controller file system.
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CVE-2023-24449: pwauth (Medium 4.3)