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CVE-2023-32979

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Jenkins Email Extension Plugin does not perform a permission check in a method implementing form validation, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to…

Vendor / product: Jenkins — email extension

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.

CVSS
4.3
4.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2023-05-16 16:15
Modified: 2026-10-28 19:10
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 10 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 19:26 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 / email_extension ≤2.96

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/2023-05-16/#SECURITY-3088%20(1)
Vendor advisory: https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-05-16/#SECURITY-3088%20(1)

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 19:26 UTC · record ↗

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