CVE-2016-3721 (GCVE-0-2016-3721)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
VLAI
Summary
Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 might allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary build parameters into the build environment via environment variables.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-02 17:22 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-05-11 00:00
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