Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Jenkins Script Security Plugin

published 2018-01-25 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r9jf-hf9x-7hrv , EUVD-2022-5137

cvss: 6.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits: 0; none known

In Jenkins Script Security Plugin version 1.36 and earlier, users with the ability to configure sandboxed Groovy scripts are able to use a type coercion feature in Groovy to create new `File` objects from strings. This allowed reading arbitrary files on the Jenkins master file system. Such a type coercion is now subject to sandbox protection and considered to be a call to the `new File(String)` constructor for the purpose of in-process script approval.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:script-security 1.37

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000505 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 6.5

jenkins-plugin-script-security: Arbitrary file read vulnerability in Script Security Plugin (SECURITY-663)

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 jenkins-plugin-script-security
affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:script-security	<1.37	1.37

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-12-11/
vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000505
advisory
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-12-11
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary