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CVE-2017-2648
It was found that jenkins-ssh-slaves-plugin before version 1.15 did not perform host key verification, thereby enabling Man-in-the-Middle…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
It was found that jenkins-ssh-slaves-plugin before version 1.15 did not perform host key verification, thereby enabling Man-in-the-Middle attacks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
Jenkins · jenkins-ssh-slaves-plugin
- affected 1.15
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jenkins-ci.plugins:ssh-slavesGHSA-x654-4wjh-74q6 (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- 96985 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2648 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-03-20/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-5724 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x654-4wjh-74q6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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