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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2023-32981 json

Jenkins Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin arbitrary file write vulnerability

published 2023-05-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6987-xccv-fhjp , EUVD-2023-1480

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An arbitrary file write vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin 2.15.2 and earlier allows attackers able to provide crafted archives as parameters to create or replace arbitrary files on the agent file system with attacker-specified content.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:pipeline-utility-steps 2.15.3
  • jenkins openshift 4.10 2.401.1.1685677065-1.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins openshift 4.10 4.10.1685679861-1.el8
  • jenkins ocp tools 4.11 2.401.1.1686831596-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.11 4.11.1686831822-1.el8
  • jenkins ocp tools 4.12 2.401.1.1686649641-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.12 4.12.1686649756-1.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:3625RHSA-2023:3663RHSA-2023:3610

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-32981 updated cvss 6.3

jenkins-2-plugin: pipeline-utility-steps: Arbitrary file write vulnerability on agents in Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8 jenkins-2-plugins 4.11.1686831822-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3663
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.12 jenkins-2-plugins 4.12.1686649756-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3610
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 jenkins-2-plugins 4.10.1685679861-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3625
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8 jenkins 2.401.1.1686831596-3.el8 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.12 jenkins 2.401.1.1686649641-3.el8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 perf 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, kernel 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, bpftool 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, jenkins 2.401.1.1685677065-1.el8, kernel-core 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, kernel-tools 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, +47 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:pipeline-utility-steps
<2.15.3
2.15.3

Affected products

  • Jenkins Project Jenkins Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.