What is CVE-2017-2602?

CVE-2017-2602 is a low-severity vulnerability in Jenkins, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. CVSS score: 3.1/10. Published 2018-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-2602?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Jenkins

CVE-2017-2602

jenkins before versions 2.44, 2.32.2 is vulnerable to an improper blacklisting of the Pipeline metadata files in the agent-to-master security subsystem. This could allow metadata files to be written to by malicious agents (SECURITY-358).

Published 2018-05-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.1 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Jenkins
[Unknown] Jenkins — versions jenkins 2.32.2, jenkins 2.44

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-184 — Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-02-01/ (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/414ff7e30aba66bed18c4ee8a8660fb36fc8c655 (Patch)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95952 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-2602?: CVE-2017-2602 is a low-severity vulnerability in Jenkins, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. CVSS score: 3.1/10. Published 2018-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-2602?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.1 out of 10.