CVE-2025-14830VulnerabilityPublished 4 Jan 2026Updated 27 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-14830: JFrog Artifactory (Workers) · XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting'

Affects JFrog Artifactory (Workers)Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.9 Medium.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

4.9Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 19% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: High: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide significant (e.g., administrative) control over the vulnerable component that could affect component-wide settings and files.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Jan 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
JFrogArtifactory (Workers)	Affected ≥ >=7.94.0, ≤ <7.117.10	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Restrict access to JFrog Artifactory (Workers) to trusted, authenticated users with the minimum necessary privileges to reduce the risk of exploitation. 2. Implement strict role-based access controls (RBAC) and regularly audit user permissions to ensure no excessive privileges are granted. 3. Monitor Artifactory logs and network traffic for unusual activity indicative of attempted XSS exploitation or privilege misuse. 4. Apply vendor patches promptly once they become available to address this vulnerability directly. 5. Employ web application firewalls (WAFs) with rules tuned to detect and block XSS payloads targeting Artifactory interfaces. 6. Educate privileged users about the risks of XSS and the importance of secure credential handling to prevent insider threats. 7. Consider isolating Artifactory instances within segmented network zones to limit exposure if compromised. 8. Use Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to mitigate the impact of potential XSS attacks by restricting script execution contexts.

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory (Workers) allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Artifactory (Workers): from >=7.94.0 through <7.117.10.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of CVE-2025-14830 centers on the potential exposure of sensitive information managed within JFrog Artifactory instances. As Artifactory is integral to software development and deployment pipelines, exploitation could lead to leakage of proprietary code, credentials, or configuration data. This could disrupt development workflows and expose intellectual property. The requirement for high privileges limits exploitation to insiders or attackers who have already breached initial defenses, but the risk remains significant in environments with many privileged users or inadequate access controls. Confidentiality breaches could cascade into broader security incidents if attackers leverage stolen data for lateral movement. Additionally, organizations subject to stringent data protection regulations like GDPR must consider the compliance implications of such data exposure. The absence of known exploits in the wild provides a window for proactive mitigation, but the widespread use of JFrog Artifactory in Europe’s tech sector means the threat should be taken seriously.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

jfrog.com/help/r/jfrog-release-information/jfrog-security-advisories (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 28 Jan 2026, 19:23 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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