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CVE-2020-2185
Jenkins Amazon EC2 Plugin 1.50.1 and earlier does not validate SSH host keys when connecting agents, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks.
- 5.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.69%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 47% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Jenkins Amazon EC2 Plugin 1.50.1 and earlier does not validate SSH host keys when connecting agents, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jenkins
- 5 months later
· 5 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 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.69% · top 47% 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: Medium 5.6.
Affected products
Jenkins project · Jenkins Amazon EC2 Plugin
- affected unspecified – ≤ 1.50.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jenkins-ci.plugins:ec2GHSA-q8qq-2p5p-rg44 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-05-06/#SECURITY-381 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20200506 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-2022-4923 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q8qq-2p5p-rg44 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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