Vulnerability: SSL Certificate Verification Bypass in Jenkins 2.73.1 and earlier, 2.83 and earlier

CVE-2017-1000396 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Jenkins 2.73.1 and earlier, 2.83 and earlier bundled a version of the commons-httpclient library with the vulnerability CVE-2012-6153 that incorrectly verified SSL certificates, making it susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. This library is widely used as a transitive dependency in Jenkins plugins. The fix for CVE-2012-6153 was backported to the version of commons-httpclient that is bundled in core and made available to plugins.

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