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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2017-17383 json

Cross-site Scripting in Jenkins Core

published 2017-12-06 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-x3rc-cxv7-6xp6 , EUVD-2022-5704

cvss
4.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins through 2.93 allows remote authenticated administrators to conduct XSS attacks via a crafted tool name in a job configuration form, as demonstrated by the JDK tool in Jenkins core and the Ant tool in the Ant plugin, aka SECURITY-624.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core 2.94
  • jenkins Arch Linux 2.94-1

arch linux advisories AVG-543

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-2017-17383 updated cvss 4.8

jenkins: XSS via a crafted tool name in a job configuration form

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 jenkins
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core
<2.94
2.94

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Technology feeds

References

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.