🛡️ CVE-2017-1000502 — ec2

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Arbitrary shell command execution in Jenkins EC2 Plugin

Users with permission to create or configure agents in Jenkins 1.37 and earlier could configure an EC2 agent to run arbitrary shell commands on the master node whenever the agent was supposed to be launched. Configuration of these agents now requires the 'Run Scripts' permission typically only granted to administrators.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-1000502 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2017-1000502 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ec2 (fixed in 1.38)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 18 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
jenkins.io (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ec2 — 1.38

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