Sandbox bypass vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin

published 2019-03-28 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-x74x-qf5j-35jh , EUVD-2022-5735

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.4%; EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits: 0; none known

A sandbox bypass vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin 2.64 and earlier allows attackers to invoke arbitrary constructors in sandboxed scripts.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins.workflow:workflow-cps 2.65

jenkins-2-plugins openshift 3.11 3.11.1553788831-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:1423

github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-cps-plugin@2e5a67f 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-2019-1003041 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 8.8

jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps: Sandbox bypass in Script Security Plugin and Pipeline: Groovy Plugin (SECURITY-1353)

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 jenkins-plugin-workflow-cps
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins 3.11.1553788831-1.el7
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1423
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins-2-plugins
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

3.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins.workflow:workflow-cps	<2.65	2.65

Affected products

Jenkins project Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-470 Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code

References

github.com /jenkinsci/workflow-cps-plugin/commit/2e5a67fde9baf25315fe692161b4e90d401da86c
web
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2019:1423
vendor-advisory, web, third-party-advisory
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2019-03-25/#SECURITY-1353
web, vendor-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/2
mailing-list, web, third-party-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/107628
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1003041
advisory
github.com /jenkinsci/workflow-cps-plugin
package

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