JFrog Artifactory < 7.133.11 Privilege Escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 345850

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the version of JFrog Artifactory installed on the remote host is prior to 7.133.11. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

- JFrog Artifactory (Self Hosted) versions before 7.133.11 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack due to a validation check of the token signature/issuer and not the token's scope. (CVE-2026-42016)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to JFrog Artifactory version 7.133.11 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 345850

File Name: jfrog_artifactory_cve_2026_42016.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/15/2026

Updated: 9/15/2026

Configuration: Enable thorough checks (optional)

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Percentile: 99.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42016

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:jfrog:artifactory

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Artifactory

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2026

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 9/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42016

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