Improper Authentication in Jenkins

published 2018-05-15 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-m93h-5qmx-pphg , EUVD-2022-4531

cvss: 4.3; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits: 0; none known

In Jenkins before versions 2.44, 2.32.2 low privilege users were able to act on administrative monitors due to them not being consistently protected by permission checks (SECURITY-371).

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core 2.32.2, 2.44
jenkins jenkins 2.32.2, 2.44

github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins@6efcf6c commit

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-2017-2604 updated 2026-06-30 cvss 4.3

jenkins: Low privilege users were able to act on administrative monitors (SECURITY-371)

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 jenkins
under investigation

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

1.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core	<2.32.2 >=2.34, <2.44	2.32.2 2.44

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] jenkins

Classification

Weakness

CWE-358 Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard
CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Technology feeds

Jenkins rss critical rss

References

github.com /jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/6efcf6c2ac39bc5c59ac7251822be8ddf67ceaf8
web, patch
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-02-01/
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/95959
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2604
web, issue-tracking
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2604
advisory
github.com /jenkinsci/jenkins
package
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-02-01
web

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-2604
GitHub Advisory GHSA-m93h-5qmx-pphg
NVD CVE-2017-2604

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Summary