Privilege escalation via JFrog Worker event token exposure

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• jfrog artifactorybefore 7.133.21
• jfrog artifactory7.146.0 and later · before 7.146.8

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (JFROG). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• jfrog artifactory

  • before 7.133.21affected
  • 7.146.0 and later · before 7.146.8affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-82329Potential authentication bypass leading to administrative access in ArtifactoryKEV
  73This week
• CVE-2026-42016Incorrect authorization validation of user token in JFrog Artifactory allows Privilege EscalationKEV
  68This week
• CVE-2026-42018Anonymous user token generation exposure in JFrog ArtifactoryKEV
  63This week
• CVE-2019-17444JFrog Artifactory does not enforce default admin password change
  60This week
• CVE-2019-9733An issue was discovered in JFrog Artifactory 6.7.3.
  55Plan
• CVE-2026-66384Authenticated users may write data outside the intended Docker cache pathKEV
  51Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.