What is CVE-2016-3725?

CVE-2016-3725 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jenkins, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2016-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2016-3725?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Jenkins

CVE-2016-3725

Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check. NOTE: this issue can be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service (service disruption).

Published 2016-05-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.024 (83.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.3% 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 3.1, 3.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11 (Vendor Advisory)
wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11 (Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1206 (vendor-advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3725?: CVE-2016-3725 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jenkins, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2016-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2016-3725?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.