CVE-2025-59475 Jenkins is missing a permission check in the authenticated users' profile menu
Attackers without read permissions can access the user profile dropdown to reveal installed plugins and configuration details.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-59475?
CVE-2025-59475 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 17 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Jenkins 2.527 and earlier, LTS 2.516.2 and earlier does not perform a permission check for the authenticated user profile dropdown menu, allowing attackers without Overall/Read permission to obtain limited information about the Jenkins configuration by listing available options in this menu (e.g., whether Credentials Plugin is installed).
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59475?
5 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core and jenkins. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core Maven | All versions | 2.516.3 |
org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core Maven | All versions | 2.516.3 |
org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core Maven | From 2.517 | 2.528 |
org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core Maven | From 2.517 | 2.528 |
jenkins Bitnami | All versions | 2.516.3, 2.528.0 |
Products include Jenkins Jenkins.
How do I fix CVE-2025-59475?
Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 2.516.3 or 2.528.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-59475 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59475 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Jenkins Jenkins
- CVE-2024-23897 Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) Path Traversal
- CVE-2018-1000861 Jenkins Stapler Web Framework Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- CVE-2017-1000353 Jenkins Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2015-5317 Jenkins User Interface (UI) Information Disclosure
- CVE-2021-21690 Multiple vulnerabilities allow bypassing path filtering of agent-to-controller access control in Jenkins
Sources
Also known as BIT-jenkins-2025-59475, GHSA-223m-4rfp-646h, MINI-47q5-m74w-473h, MINI-hcj5-j3h8-g8fw, MINI-vvhq-x5ff-gqrx.