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Fencer Intel
high 8.8

CVE-2016-0792 in the critical feed json

Jenkins allows Deserialization of Untrusted Data via an XML File

published 2016-04-07 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-45rg-g72w-r393 , EUVD-2016-0803

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
83.3%
EPSS 83.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple unspecified API endpoints in Jenkins before 1.650 and LTS before 1.642.2 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via serialized data in an XML file, related to XStream and groovy.util.Expando.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core 1.642.2, 1.650
  • rhc openshift 2.0 1.38.7.1-1.el6op
  • jenkins openshift 2.0 1.651.2-1.el6op
  • activemq openshift 2.0 5.9.0-6.redhat.611463.el6op
  • libcgroup openshift 2.0 0.40.rc1-18.el6_8
  • ImageMagick openshift 2.0 6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
  • libcgroup-pam openshift 2.0 0.40.rc1-18.el6_8
  • activemq-client openshift 2.0 5.9.0-6.redhat.611463.el6op
  • ImageMagick-perl openshift 2.0 6.7.2.7-5.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1773RHSA-2016:0711

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-2016-0792 updated cvss 7.5

jenkins: Remote code execution through remote API (SECURITY-247)

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 jenkins 1.642.2-1.el7, jenkins-plugin-kubernetes 0.5-1.el7, jenkins-plugin-credentials 1.24-2.el7, jenkins-plugin-durable-task 1.7-1.el7, jenkins-plugin-openshift-pipeline 1.0.9-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0711
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Client 2.2 rhc 1.38.7.1-1.el6op Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Infrastructure 2.2 activemq 5.9.0-6.redhat.611463.el6op, openshift-origin-broker 1.16.3.2-1.el6op, activemq-client 5.9.0-6.redhat.611463.el6op, openshift-origin-broker-util 1.37.6.2-1.el6op, rubygem-openshift-origin-controller 1.38.6.4-1.el6op, rubygem-openshift-origin-admin-console 1.28.2.1-1.el6op, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise JBoss EAP add-on 2.2 openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap 2.27.4.2-1.el6op Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Node 2.2 jenkins 1.651.2-1.el6op, ImageMagick 6.7.2.7-5.el6_8, libcgroup 0.40.rc1-18.el6_8, libcgroup-pam 0.40.rc1-18.el6_8, ImageMagick-perl 6.7.2.7-5.el6_8, activemq 5.9.0-6.redhat.611463.el6op, +19 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1773

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/jenkins_xstream_deserialize)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

83.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core
>=1.643, <1.650
<1.642.2
1.650
1.642.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.