CVE-2020-2099

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-330

Description

Jenkins 2.213 and earlier, LTS 2.204.1 and earlier improperly reuses encryption key parameters in the Inbound TCP Agent Protocol/3, allowing unauthorized attackers with knowledge of agent names to obtain the connection secrets for those agents, which can be used to connect to Jenkins, impersonating those agents.

Affected products

Jenkins: through 2.204.1; through 2.218

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/29/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0402
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0675
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0681
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0683
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-01-29/#SECURITY-1682
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/29/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0402
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0675
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0681
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0683
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-01-29/#SECURITY-1682

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