🛡️ CVE-2020-2246 — valgrind

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Stored XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Valgrind Plugin

Jenkins Valgrind Plugin 0.28 and earlier does not escape content in Valgrind XML reports, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to control Valgrind XML report contents.

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-2246 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2020-2246 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:valgrind

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

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

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