CVE-2017-1000396: Jenkins

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Jenkins Jenkins: up to and including 2.73.1; up to and including 2.83

Published 2018-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.