CVE-2020-2172

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-2172 describes an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Jenkins Code Coverage API Plugin versions 1.1.4 and earlier. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows an authenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact by exploiting the plugin's unconfigured XML parser, without requiring user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 1.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:code_coverage_api::::::jenkins::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.07%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

61.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0107 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 21,924 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: io.jenkins.plugins:code-coverage-apiFixed in: 1.1.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-cmgm-q8hf-p7jchigh

XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Code Coverage API Plugin

May 24, 2022

References

jenkins.io / security/advisory/2020-04-07

Third Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/04/07/3