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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-21686: jenkins: File path filters do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-21686: jenkins: File path filters do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/04/2021
Created
12/01/2021
Added
11/30/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

File path filters in the agent-to-controller security subsystem of Jenkins 2.318 and earlier, LTS 2.303.2 and earlier do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-jenkins

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