Jenkins External Workspace Manager Plugin 1.4.1 and earlier does not perform a permission check (1.4.0 and earlier) or performs an improper permission check (1.4.1) when providing access to externally-managed workspaces through the workspace browser, allowing attackers with Overall/Read permission to read files in workspaces they are not authorized to access.
CVE-2026-70436
Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-05. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.3
- EG Score
- 4.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 19(Track)EG Risk 19/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity43% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 13%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 5, 2026
Last Modified
August 6, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 6, 2026Jenkins Security Advisory 2026-08-05
https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2026-08-05/#SECURITY-3907Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-70436(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 48× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-21 00:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 00:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 23:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 23:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 23:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 23:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 22:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 22:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 22:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 22:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 02:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 21:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-15 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 01:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 21:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 21:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 20:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-08-12 19:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 19:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-10 18:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 18:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 17:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-08 17:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-07 17:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 17:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 15:31 UTCEG score recompute▲ 4.30
- 2026-08-06 15:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 15:31 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 4.3 · severity → MEDIUM
- 2026-08-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-05 18:29 UTCNVD update
- 2026-08-05 17:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-05 17:55 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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