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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2022-34173 json

Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Jenkins

published 2022-06-22 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-jenkins-2022-34173 , EUVD-2022-5961 , GHSA-6g4r-q7qg-6qx6

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Jenkins 2.340 through 2.355 (both inclusive) the tooltip of the build button in list views supports HTML without escaping the job display name, resulting in a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Job/Configure permission.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core 2.356
  • bitnami jenkins 2.355.1
  • jenkins Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 2.346.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-34173

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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-2022-34173 updated cvss 6.1

Jenkins: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Jenkins LTS

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core
>=2.340, <2.356
2.356
bitnami jenkins
>=2.340.0, <2.355.1
2.355.1

Affected products

  • Jenkins project Jenkins

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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