Privilege escalation via JFrog Worker event token exposure
Priority MEDIUM 41CWE-200Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-200.
Summary
An event-handling weakness in JFrog Artifactory could expose privileged authorization material to a lower-privileged user under specific conditions.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00519 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed artifactory (jfrog): 7.133.21, 7.146.8
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA artifactory (jfrog) Fixed in 7.133.21, 7.146.8
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-42017
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g554-2364-r9j6
References
More JFrog Artifactory vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-56777 Potential authentication bypass leading to administrative access in Artifactory KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-30404 Incorrect authorization validation of user token in JFrog Artifactory allows Privilege Escalation KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-30406 Anonymous user token generation exposure in JFrog Artifactory KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-47149 Authenticated users may write data outside the intended Docker cache path KEVCVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2019-13025 JFrog Artifactory does not enforce default admin password change CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-07126 An issue was discovered in JFrog Artifactory 6.7.3. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-42017 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-42017 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g554-2364-r9j6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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