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CVE-2016-3725: jenkins

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesGHSA-59fm-6x3q-q3q5
Published 17-05-2016Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-3725 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in jenkins. EPSS estimates a 2.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.39%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
RHSA-2016:1206RHSA-2016:1773

Timeline

  1. 17-05-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check. NOTE: this issue can be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service (service disruption).

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.39% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.39%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Jenkins1 product
Org.jenkins-ci.main1 product
  • jenkins-core< 2.3
Redhat1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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