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Medium, CVSS 4.3

Missing permission check in Jenkins Project Inheritance Plugin

CVE-2020-2197GHSA-hj32-9mcw-5cwh

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

This page has no inventory attached, so it cannot say whether you are affected. A vendor fix is not proof that your deployment is fixed.

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Affected packages

  • Maven hudson.plugins:project-inheritance

    Affected
    <= 21.04.03
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
4.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
  • CVE-2020-2197: 0.65% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 51.09 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

Jenkins limits access to job configuration XML data (config.xml) to users with Job/ExtendedRead permission, typically implied by Job/Configure permission. Project Inheritance Plugin has several job inspection features, including the API URL /job/…​/getConfigAsXML for its Inheritance Project job type that does something similar. Project Inheritance Plugin 21.04.03 and earlier does not check permissions for this new endpoint, granting access to job configuration XML data to every user with Job/Read permission. Additionally, the encrypted values of secrets stored in the job configuration are not redacted, as they would be by the config.xml API for users without Job/Configure permission.

Dates and revisions
Published by the source
Last modified by the source
Source last checked
  1. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from ghsa record GHSA-hj32-9mcw-5cwh

Agent brief

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2020-2197

Advisory: Missing permission check in Jenkins Project Inheritance Plugin
IDs: CVE-2020-2197, GHSA-hj32-9mcw-5cwh
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2020-2197 (revision 1, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 4.3)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- Maven hudson.plugins:project-inheritance: affected <= 21.04.03

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- Maven hudson.plugins:project-inheritance: check the installed version with your package manager.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on hudson.plugins:project-inheritance.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hj32-9mcw-5cwh (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-hj32-9mcw-5cwh lists affected ranges: Maven hudson.plugins:project-inheritance >=0 <=21.04.03)

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