Missing permission checks in Jenkins Distributed Fork Plugin

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-2652 · GHSA-2cm5-f78c-h2c8 · Published 27/07/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-2652 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting org.jenkins-ci.plugins:distfork, distributed fork (jenkins).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.6.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:distfork Maven	`< 1.6.0`	`1.6.0`
distributed fork jenkins	`≤ 1.5.0`	No fix yet

Description

It was found that there were no permission checks performed in the Distributed Fork plugin before and including 1.5.0 for Jenkins that provides the dist-fork CLI command beyond the basic check for Overall/Read permission, allowing anyone with that permission to run arbitrary shell commands on all connected nodes.

NVD description

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2652 · ADVISORY
jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-03-20 · WEB
securityfocus.com/bid/96980 · WEB
jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-03-20 · Vendor Advisory

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