CVE-2022-38664
Published: 23 August 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-38664 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Job Configuration History. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-38664, that affects the Jenkins Job Configuration History Plugin in version 1165.v8cc9fd1f4597 and earlier. It stems from a failure to escape job names when they are rendered on the System Configuration History page, corresponding to CWE-79.
Attackers who can configure job names are able to inject malicious scripts that execute in the browsers of other users who view the affected page. Successful exploitation yields limited impacts on confidentiality and integrity with no availability effect, reflected in the CVSS 5.4 score.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2022-08-23 addresses the issue under SECURITY-2765, and the associated EPSS score has remained flat at a peak of 0.1625 with no material rise after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-6457
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Job Configuration History Plugin 1165.v8cc9fd1f4597 and earlier does not escape the job name on the System Configuration History page, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to configure job names.
- 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.