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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-1999040 json

Exposure of Sensitive Information in Jenkins Kubernetes Plugin

published 2018-08-01 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-fqg2-c97r-rqcj , EUVD-2022-3821

cvss
8.8
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 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An exposure of sensitive information vulnerability exists in Jenkins Kubernetes Plugin 1.10.1 and earlier in KubernetesCloud.java that allows attackers to capture credentials with a known credentials ID stored in Jenkins.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.csanchez.jenkins.plugins:kubernetes 1.10.2

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-2018-1999040 updated cvss 4.8

jenkins-plugin-kubernetes: credentials Information Exposure

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes
    +3 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-plugin-kubernetes
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.csanchez.jenkins.plugins:kubernetes
<1.10.2
1.10.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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