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CVE-2012-4440
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Jenkins main before 1.482 and LTS before 1.466.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or…
Medium6.1EPSS 1.9%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Jenkins main before 1.482 and LTS before 1.466.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Violations plugin.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
- Cross-Site Scripting
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jenkins-ci.plugins:violationsGHSA-5qpv-27q3-6484 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4440 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2012-09-17 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5qpv-27q3-6484 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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