🛡️ CVE-2017-2652 — distfork

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Missing permission checks in Jenkins Distributed Fork Plugin

It was found that there were no permission checks performed in the Distributed Fork plugin before and including 1.5.0 for Jenkins that provides the dist-fork CLI command beyond the basic check for Overall/Read permission, allowing anyone with that permission to run arbitrary shell commands on all connected nodes.

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-2017-2652 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2017-2652 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:distfork (fixed in 1.6.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 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)
www.securityfocus.com (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-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:distfork — 1.6.0

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