Missing permission checks in Jenkins Amazon EC2 Plugin

published 2020-01-15 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6hmm-77r2-h6hr , EUVD-2022-2802

cvss: 8.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits: 0; none known

A missing permission check in Jenkins Amazon EC2 Plugin 1.47 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to connect to an attacker-specified URL within the AWS region using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another method.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ec2 1.48

github.com/jenkinsci/ec2-plugin@0cdbaf2 commit

Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	5.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.1	5.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ec2	<1.48	1.48

Affected products

Jenkins project Jenkins Amazon EC2 Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

References

github.com /jenkinsci/ec2-plugin/commit/0cdbaf2d7da5c368209f427559c8608dec22a63b
web
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2020-01-15/#SECURITY-1004
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2091
advisory
github.com /jenkinsci/ec2-plugin
package

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-2091
GitHub Advisory GHSA-6hmm-77r2-h6hr
NVD CVE-2020-2091

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Summary