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CVE-2012-4440

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4440 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Jenkins, specifically affecting versions main before 1.482 and LTS before 1.466.2, through the Violations plugin. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) can be exploited remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.466.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
< 1.482CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0187 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.jenkins-ci.plugins:violationsFixed in: 0.7.11

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-5qpv-27q3-6484medium

Jenkins Violation Plugin allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Apr 23, 2022

References

security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2012-4440
Third Party Advisory
cloudbees.com / jenkins-security-advisory-2012-09-17
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory