CVE-2017-2652: Jenkins Distributed Fork

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Jenkins Distributed Fork: up to and including 1.5.0

Published 2018-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.