CVE-2012-6074

16

FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6074 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Jenkins, Jenkins LTS, and Jenkins Enterprise versions prior to their respective patches. This flaw allows remote authenticated users with write access to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML, potentially leading to client-side attacks. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring authentication, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 1.480.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:cloudbees:jenkins::::::::
		1.400CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:1.400:::::::*
		1.401CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:1.401:::::::*
		1.402CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:1.402:::::::*
		1.403CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:1.403:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.5LOW

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Exploitability Score

6.8

Impact Score

2.9

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.42%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

70.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0142 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 1,636 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (24)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-coreFixed in: 1.491

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-coreFixed in: 1.480.1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: jenkins-0:1.498-1.1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: mongodb-0:2.0.2-6.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-console-0:0.0.13-2.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-0:1.0.10-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-util-0:1.0.14-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-haproxy-1.4-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.8-0:1.0.5-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.9-scl-0:1.0.5-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective-0:1.0.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-node-util-0:1.0.7-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-port-proxy-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rhc-0:1.3.2-1.3.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.8-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-passenger-0:3.0.12-21.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.13-3.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-auth-remote-user-0:1.0.4-2.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-common-0:1.0.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-console-0:1.0.6-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-controller-0:1.0.11-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-dns-bind-0:1.0.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-msg-broker-mcollective-0:1.0.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-node-0:1.0.10-6.el6op

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-9hr6-5x6g-gg5glow

Jenkins allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

redhatCVE-2012-6074Moderate

Jenkins: cross-site scripting vulnerability

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0220.html

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

wiki.jenkins-ci.org / display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2012-11-20

Vendor Advisory

cloudbees.com / jenkins-advisory/jenkins-security-advisory-2012-11-20.cb

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/12/28/1