jenkinsci/jenkins · Security
Improper Certificate Validation in Jenkins
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-fq9f-9wv9-rfmg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-1000396
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.9 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.9 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Description
Jenkins 2.73.1 and earlier, 2.83 and earlier bundled a version of the commons-httpclient library with the vulnerability CVE-2012-6153 that incorrectly verified SSL certificates, making it susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. This library is widely used as a transitive dependency in Jenkins plugins. The fix for CVE-2012-6153 was backported to the version of commons-httpclient that is bundled in core and made available to plugins.
CWEs
- CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation