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CVE-2016-3725

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

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).

Affected products

• Jenkins: through 1.651.1; through 2.2
• Openshift: 3.1, 3.2

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1206
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11
• https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1206
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11
• https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11

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