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An improper authorization vulnerability exists in Jenkins Mesos Plugin 0.17.1 and earlier…

Priority LOW 31CWE-918Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

An improper authorization vulnerability exists in Jenkins Mesos Plugin 0.17.1 and earlier in MesosCloud.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read access to initiate a test connection to an attacker-specified Mesos server with attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another method, capturing credentials stored in Jenkins.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01293 70th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed org.jenkins-ci.plugins:mesos (Maven): 0.18

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
—org.jenkins-ci.plugins:mesos (Maven)before 0.180.18Patch availableGHSA-5q7j-8hpc-4848
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:mesos (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 0.18 Fixed in 0.18 Patch available GHSA-5q7j-8hpc-4848

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*up to 0.17.1VulnerableApache
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:mesos:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:* Versions up to 0.17.1 Vulnerable ·Apache

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-5q7j-8hpc-4848 org.jenkins-ci.plugins:mesos (Maven) Fixed in 0.18 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-1000421
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5q7j-8hpc-4848

References

  • TI-2019-04061 runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2018-08449 Memory corruption in Apache Mesos CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-00180 A specifically crafted Docker image running under the root user can overwrite the init… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2018-01231 Improper input validation in Apache Mesos CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2017-07170 Use after free in Apache Mesos CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2017-05323 When handling a decoding failure for a malformed URL path of an HTTP request, libprocess… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
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