🛡️ CVE-2022-20617 — docker-commons

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

OS command execution vulnerability in Jenkins Docker Commons Plugin

Jenkins Docker Commons Plugin 1.17 and earlier does not sanitize the name of an image or a tag, resulting in an OS command execution vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Item/Configure permission or able to control the contents of a previously configured job's SCM repository.

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-2022-20617 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-2022-20617 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • docker-commons (fixed in 1.17)
  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:docker-commons (fixed in 1.18)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 January 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com
www.jenkins.io
www.openwall.com
www.jenkins.io

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-01-12
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
docker-commons — 1.17
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:docker-commons — 1.18

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