GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) CWE-770 vulnerability in org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core. A fix is available for org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Denial of service in Jenkins Core
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 GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core☕org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core☕org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-coreReal-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 2.393 and earlier, LTS 2.375.3 and earlier, and prior to LTS 2.387.1 is affected by the Apache Commons FileUpload library’s vulnerability CVE-2023-24998. This library is used to process uploaded files via the Stapler web framework (usually through StaplerRequest#getFile) and MultipartFormDataParser in Jenkins.
This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) by sending crafted requests to HTTP endpoints processing file uploads.
Jenkins 2.394, LTS 2.375.4, and LTS 2.387.1 limits the number of request parts to be processed to 1000. Specific endpoints receiving only simple form submissions have a lower limit.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core | ≥ 2.388&&< 2.394 | 2.394org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core:2.394 |
| ☕Maven | org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core | all versions | 2.375.4org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core:2.375.4 |
| ☕Maven | org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core | ≥ 2.376&&< 2.387.1 | 2.387.1org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core:2.387.1 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to 2.394 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
OpenShift 3.11 is already in the ELS support model phase. The Jenkins components are out of the scope of the ELS support; hence OpenShift 3.11 Jenkins component is marked in this CVE as Out of Support Scope.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8 | jenkins-0:2.387.3.1684911776-3.el8 | RHSA-2023:3299 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-frgr-c5f2-8qhh across Maven dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.