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CVE-2016-0792

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 83.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

• Jenkins: through 1.649; through 1.642.1
• Openshift: 3.1

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0711
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-02-24
• https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/serialization-must-die-act-2-xstream
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42394/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43375/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0711
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-02-24
• https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/serialization-must-die-act-2-xstream
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42394/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43375/

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