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CVE-2017-2648

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

It was found that jenkins-ssh-slaves-plugin before version 1.15 did not perform host key verification, thereby enabling Man-in-the-Middle attacks.

Affected products

• jenkins-ssh-slaves-plugin: before 1.15 — fixed in 1.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: jenkins-ssh-slaves-plugin 1.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96985
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2648
• https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-03-20/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96985
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2648
• https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-03-20/

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