CVE-2020-2242

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

A missing permission check in Jenkins database Plugin 1.6 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read access to Jenkins to connect to an attacker-specified database server using attacker-specified credentials.

Affected products

Jenkins project Jenkins database Plugin: through 1.6

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/01/3
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-09-01/#SECURITY-1024
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/01/3
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-09-01/#SECURITY-1024

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