🛡️ CVE-2022-36881 — git-client

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-295 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
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Description

Jenkins Git client plugin 3.11.0 does not perform SSH host key verification

Jenkins Git client plugin 3.11.0 and earlier does not perform SSH host key verification when connecting to Git repositories via SSH, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks. Git client Plugin 3.11.1 provides strategies for performing host key verification for administrators to select the one that meets their security needs. For more information see [the plugin documentation](https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-client-plugin#ssh-host-key-verification).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no 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-2022-36881 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-2022-36881 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • git-client (fixed in 3.11.0)
  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:git-client (fixed in 3.11.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 July 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 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-295
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-07-27
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
git-client — 3.11.0
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:git-client — 3.11.1

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