CVE-2023-33779 — A lateral privilege escalation vulnerability in XXL-Job v2

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/.

01What is this vulnerability?

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/.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-05-26T17:15:18.153
• Last modified: 2026-07-09T01:18:25.690

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/silence-silence/xxl-job-lateral-privilege-escalation-vulnerab…
• github.com — https://github.com/xuxueli/xxl-job
• github.com — https://github.com/silence-silence/xxl-job-lateral-privilege-escalation-vulnerab…
• github.com — https://github.com/xuxueli/xxl-job