Jenkins Ansible Plugin man in the middle vulnerability

published 2018-04-05 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also GHSA-322x-jv5h-cvjh , EUVD-2022-2077

cvss: 5.6; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits: 0; none known

A man in the middle vulnerability exists in Jenkins Ansible Plugin 0.8 and older in AbstractAnsibleInvocation.java, AnsibleAdHocCommandBuilder.java, AnsibleAdHocCommandInvocationTest.java, AnsibleContext.java, AnsibleJobDslExtension.java, AnsiblePlaybookBuilder.java, AnsiblePlaybookStep.java that disables host key verification by default.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ansible 1.0

github.com/jenkinsci/ansible-plugin@06d30e5 commit

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Exploit prediction

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	5.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub	3.0	5.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ansible	<1.0	1.0

References

github.com /jenkinsci/ansible-plugin/commit/06d30e5b626a978e258a7f4ab473cd7f53a7cba7
web
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2018-03-26/#SECURITY-630
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000149
advisory

Sources

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