CVE-2022-34171
Published: 23 June 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-34171 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 21.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-5981
Vulnerability details
In Jenkins 2.321 through 2.355 (both inclusive) and LTS 2.332.1 through LTS 2.332.3 (both inclusive) the HTML output generated for new symbol-based SVG icons includes the 'title' attribute of 'l:ionicon' (until Jenkins 2.334) and 'alt' attribute of 'l:icon' (since Jenkins…
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2.335) without further escaping, resulting in a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.