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).

EPSS: 0.024 (82.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Jenkins
Redhat Openshift — versions 3.1, 3.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, 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.