TI-2022-21209 Aliases CVE-2022-43414 GHSA-8cxw-wvhc-p4x4

Protection mechanism failure in Jenkins NUnit Plugin

LOW 31CWE-552Published 2022-10-19 · Updated 2025-05-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Information disclosure, Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · None · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-552 and CWE-693.

Summary

Jenkins NUnit Plugin 0.27 and earlier implements an agent-to-controller message that parses files inside a user-specified directory as test results, allowing attackers able to control agent processes to obtain test results from files in an attacker-specified directory on the Jenkins controller.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00797 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed org.jenkins-ci.plugins:nunit (Maven): 0.28

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Jenkins	Jenkins NUnit Plugin	up to 0.27	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:nunit (Maven)	before 0.28	0.28	Patch available	GHSA-8cxw-wvhc-p4x4

Jenkins NUnit Plugin VendorJenkins Affected up to 0.27 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:nunit (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 0.28 Fixed in 0.28 Patch available GHSA-8cxw-wvhc-p4x4

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:nunit::::::jenkins::*	before 0.28	Vulnerable	Jenkins

cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:nunit:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:* Versions before 0.28 Vulnerable ·Jenkins

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-8cxw-wvhc-p4x4 org.jenkins-ci.plugins:nunit (Maven) Fixed in 0.28 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-43414
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8cxw-wvhc-p4x4

References

Advisory 3

Other 1

https://github.com/jenkinsci/nunit-plugin/commit/e97a5aa804019ab345f50014f56ece23882c7475

TI-2020-01992 Jenkins NUnit Plugin 0.25 and earlier does not configure the XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8

Sources

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