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CVE-2024-23897 — jenkins:jenkins

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CVSS v3.1 9.8 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 94.4% (higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2024-01-24

As of 2025-10-24, CVE-2024-23897 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in jenkins:jenkins, CVSS v3.1 9.8, EPSS 94.4% (99.9th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2024-23897, most recently “APT35 (Charming Kitten) GCC Pre-Positioning Cyber Reconnaissance Campaign Enabling Kinetic Targeting”.

Last updated: 2025-10-24

What is CVE-2024-23897?

Jenkins 2.441 and earlier, LTS 2.426.2 and earlier does not disable a feature of its CLI command parser that replaces an '@' character followed by a file path in an argument with the file's contents, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.

The record classifies CVE-2024-23897 under weakness classes CWE-22, CWE-27. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 963 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 9.8 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST): 94.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Listed
Threadlinqs priority: 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published: 2024-01-24, last modified 2025-10-24

Is CVE-2024-23897 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2024-23897 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild. It currently carries a trending score of 40 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

(vendor unspecified): jenkins:jenkins

How to fix CVE-2024-23897

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2024-23897 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2024-23897

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2024-23897, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

APT35 (Charming Kitten) GCC Pre-Positioning Cyber Reconnaissance Campaign Enabling Kinetic Targeting — CRITICAL · 2026-04-09

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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