# CVE-2025-24401: Disabled permissions can be granted by Folder-based in Jenkins Authorization Strategy Plugin

> Users retain access to disabled permissions in Jenkins Folder-based Authorization Strategy Plugin, allowing unauthorized privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 23 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-969g-rq57-c79h

## What is CVE-2025-24401?

CVE-2025-24401 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Jenkins Folder-based Authorization Strategy Plugin, published on 22 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Jenkins Folder-based Authorization Strategy Plugin 217.vd5b_18537403e and earlier does not verify that permissions configured to be granted are enabled, potentially allowing users formerly granted (typically optional permissions, like Overall/Manage) to access functionality they're no longer entitled to.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24401?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including io.jenkins.plugins:folder-auth. It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `io.jenkins.plugins:folder-auth` | Maven | All versions to 217.vd5b | None |
| `io.jenkins.plugins:folder-auth` | Maven | All versions to 217.vd5b | None |

Products: Jenkins Folder-Based Authorization Strategy.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-24401?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24401 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24401 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24401 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Jenkins Folder-based Authorization Strategy Plugin

- [CVE-2022-27200](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-27200/): Stored Cross-site Scripting in folder-auth plugin (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24401 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24401 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Jenkins Folder-based Authorization Strategy Plugin, published on 22 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24401 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- io.jenkins.plugins:folder-auth (Maven): affected all versions up to 217.vd5b; no fix listed
- io.jenkins.plugins:folder-auth (Maven): affected all versions up to 217.vd5b; no fix listed

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24401/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24401/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24401
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24401
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24401

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24401/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.