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 Packages

Maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:distfork

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.6.0)

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-2652

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-2cm5-f78c-h2c8

Published

May 13, 2022 1:36 AM

Last Modified

January 30, 2024 10:19 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.jenkins-ci.plugins:distfork

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: August 25, 2025 6:33 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.