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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2020-2254 json

Path traversal vulnerability in Blue Ocean Plugin

published 2020-09-16 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vq7j-6pcq-f48p , EUVD-2022-5406

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins Blue Ocean Plugin 1.23.2 and earlier provides an undocumented feature flag that, when enabled, allows an attacker with Job/Configure or Job/Create permission to read arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.

Patch / fix

  • maven io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean 1.23.3
  • Jenkins project Jenkins Blue Ocean Plugin 1.19.2
  • runc openshift 4.6 1.0.0-81.rhaos4.6.git5b757d4.el7
  • runc openshift 4.6 1.0.0-81.rhaos4.6.git5b757d4.el8
  • podman openshift 4.6 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8
  • skopeo openshift 4.6 1:1.1.1-2.rhaos4.6.el8
  • podman-tests openshift 4.6 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8
  • skopeo-tests openshift 4.6 1:1.1.1-2.rhaos4.6.el8
  • podman-docker openshift 4.6 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8
  • podman-remote openshift 4.6 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4297RHSA-2020:5102

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-2020-2254 updated cvss 6.5

jenkins-2-plugins/blueocean: Path traversal vulnerability in Blue Ocean Plugin could allow to read arbitrary files

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins 3.11.1603460090-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5102
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 jenkins-2-plugins 4.6.1601368321-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4297
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 podman 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8, skopeo 1.1.1-2.rhaos4.6.el8, podman-tests 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8, skopeo-tests 1.1.1-2.rhaos4.6.el8, podman-docker 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8, podman-remote 1.9.3-3.rhaos4.6.el8, +7 more
    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

2.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean
<1.23.3
1.23.3

Affected products

  • Jenkins project Jenkins Blue Ocean Plugin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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