{"id":"CVE-2016-3725","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-3725","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:49:26.177Z","title":"Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check.","description":"Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check. NOTE: this issue can be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service (service disruption).","published":"2016-05-17T14:08:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:46:16.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["jenkins/jenkins","redhat/openshift"],"epss":{"score":0.02388,"percentile":0.83832,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1206","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1206","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3725","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}