Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Jenkins

published 2018-05-15 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-fwqr-3pvp-pjwq , EUVD-2022-3846

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 5.9%; EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins before versions 2.44, 2.32.2 is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability involving the deserialization of various types in javax.imageio in XStream-based APIs (SECURITY-383).

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core 2.32.2, 2.44
jenkins jenkins 2.32.2

github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins@a814154 commit

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-2017-2608 updated 2026-06-30 cvss 8.8

jenkins: XStream remote code execution vulnerability (SECURITY-383)

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 jenkins
under investigation

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

5.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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	6.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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	<2.32.2 >=2.34, <2.44	2.32.2 2.44

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] jenkins

Classification

Weakness

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Technology feeds

Jenkins rss critical rss

References

github.com /jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/a814154695e23dc37542af7d40cacc129cf70722
web, patch
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-02-01/
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/95953
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2608
web, issue-tracking
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2608
advisory
github.com /jenkinsci/jenkins
package
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-02-01
web

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-2608
GitHub Advisory GHSA-fwqr-3pvp-pjwq
NVD CVE-2017-2608

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Summary