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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2022-20616 json

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin

published 2022-01-12 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-gqm2-2gcx-p88w , EUVD-2022-0609

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin 1.27 and earlier does not perform a permission check in a method implementing form validation, allowing attackers with Overall/Read access to validate if a credential ID refers to a secret file credential and whether it's a zip file.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding 1.24.1, 1.27.1
  • Jenkins project Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin 1.24.1

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-2022-20616 updated cvss 4.3

jenkins-2-plugins/credentials-binding: does not perform a permission check in a method implementing form validation

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix available

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

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding
>=1.25, <1.27.1
<1.24.1
1.27.1
1.24.1

Affected products

  • Jenkins project Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

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.