What is CVE-2015-7537?

CVE-2015-7537 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jenkins, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-02-03.

How severe is CVE-2015-7537?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

CSRF in Jenkins

CVE-2015-7537

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.640 and LTS before 1.625.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via vectors related to the HTTP GET method.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2016-02-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.024 (83.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Jenkins
Red Hat Openshift — versions 2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2015-12-09 (Vendor Advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0489.html (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7537?: CVE-2015-7537 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jenkins, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-02-03.
How severe is CVE-2015-7537?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.