CVE-2023-40338

mediumpriority · track · 17EPSS 0.006 · 51 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.64% (51st) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Jenkins Folders Plugin 6.846.v23698686f0f6 and earlier displays an error message that includes an absolute path of a log file when attempting to access the Scan Organization Folder Log if no logs are available, exposing information about the Jenkins controller file system.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 1.4

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-532USprimaryCWE-209USCWE-532US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Jenkins Jenkins Pluginsall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:cloudbees:jenkins:plugins
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Jenkins Project Jenkins Folders Plugin≤ 0 ≤6.846.v23698686f0f6enisa_euvdEU
jenkins folders≤ 6.846.v23698686f0f6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:jenkins:folders:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:cloudbees-folder< 6.848.ve3bosvUSpkg:maven/org.jenkins-ci.plugins/cloudbees-folder

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2088Jenkins: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-08-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Jenkins ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen oder Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen.
GHSA-36hq-v2fc-rpqpJenkins Folders Plugin information disclosure vulnerability2023-08-16ghsa · osvUS
Jenkins Folders Plugin displays an error message when attempting to access the Scan Organization Folder Log if no logs are available. In Folders Plugin 6.846.v23698686f0f6 and earlier, this error message includes the absolute path of a log file, exposing information about the Jenkins controller file system. Folders Plugin 6.848.ve3b_fd7839a_81 does not display the absolute path of a log file in the error message.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-08-16modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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