Jenkins is missing a permission check in the authenticated users' profile menu

CVE-2025-59475 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Jenkins 2.527 and earlier, LTS 2.516.2 and earlier does not perform a permission check for the authenticated user profile dropdown menu. This allows attackers without Overall/Read permission to obtain limited information about the Jenkins configuration by listing available options in this menu (e.g., whether Credentials Plugin is installed).

Jenkins 2.528, LTS 2.516.3 requires Overall/Read permission to list various items in authenticated user profile dropdown menus.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
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Source code
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Published (advisory)
2025-09-17 15:30:37 UTC
Updated
2025-11-05 20:45:04 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2025-09-17 20:34:40 UTC
NVD published
2025-09-17

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.03% 7.60%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
4.3 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-223m-4rfp-646h ↗
CVE CVE-2025-59475 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core < 2.516.3 2.516.3 —
maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core >= 2.517, < 2.528 2.528 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence