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CVE-2020-2158
Jenkins Literate Plugin 1.0 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Jenkins Literate Plugin 1.0 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jenkins
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
Jenkins project · Jenkins Literate Plugin
- affected unspecified – ≤ 1.0
- unknown next of 1.0 – < unspecified
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jenkins-ci.plugins:literateGHSA-c329-r874-xc7j (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-03-09/#SECURITY-1750 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20200309 Multiple vulnerabilities in Jenkins plugins (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2022-3481 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c329-r874-xc7j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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