CVE-2020-2179: Jenkins Yaml Axis

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Jenkins Yaml Axis Plugin 0.2.0 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerability.

Affected products

• Jenkins Yaml Axis: up to and including 0.2.0

Published 2020-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.