🛡️ CVE-2019-16561 — websphere-deployer

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-295 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

SSL/TLS certificate validation globally and unconditionally disabled by Jenkins WebSphere Deployer Plugin

Jenkins WebSphere Deployer Plugin 1.6.1 and earlier allows users with Overall/Read access to disable SSL/TLS certificate and hostname validation for the entire Jenkins master JVM.

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 low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-16561 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.

Affected software

CVE-2019-16561 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:websphere-deployer

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
jenkins.io (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-295
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:websphere-deployer — —

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