CVE-2021-21690: Protection Mechanism Failure

November 4, 2021 (updated November 22, 2023)

Agent processes are able to completely bypass file path filtering by wrapping the file operation in an agent file path in Jenkins.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21690
www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2021-11-04/

Code Behaviors & Features

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