CVE-2016-4986

Tap vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TAP plugin before 1.25 in Jenkins allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an unspecified parameter.

Affected vendor

Jenkins

Affected product

Tap

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2017-02-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Jenkins Tap is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-4986.
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