CVE-2016-3725

19

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3725 is a missing permissions check vulnerability in Jenkins versions prior to 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2, affecting Jenkins, OpenShift, and Red Hat Jenkins/OpenShift. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to trigger updates of update site metadata. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.3), it has a low attack complexity and could lead to service disruption if combined with DNS cache poisoning. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 1.651.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:::::lts:::*
		<= 2.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins::::::::
		3.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:3.1::::enterprise:::
		3.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:3.2::::enterprise:::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.39%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

82.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0239 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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 (35)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-coreFixed in: 2.3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2Fixed in: jenkins-0:1.651.2-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2Fixed in: jenkins-plugin-openshift-pipeline-0:1.0.12-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: activemq-0:5.9.0-6.redhat.611463.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.7.2.7-5.el6_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: jenkins-0:1.651.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: libcgroup-0:0.40.rc1-18.el6_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-broker-0:1.16.3.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-broker-util-0:1.37.6.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-cron-0:1.25.4.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0:1.26.2.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-haproxy-0:1.31.6.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap-0:2.27.4.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbossews-0:1.35.5.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-0:1.29.2.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-client-0:1.26.1.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-mongodb-0:1.26.2.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-mysql-0:1.31.3.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-nodejs-0:1.33.1.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-perl-0:1.30.2.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-php-0:1.35.4.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-python-0:1.34.3.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-0:1.32.2.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective-0:1.30.2.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-node-proxy-0:1.26.3.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: openshift-origin-node-util-0:1.38.7.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rhc-0:1.38.7.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-admin-console-0:1.28.2.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-controller-0:1.38.6.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-frontend-haproxy-sni-proxy-0:0.5.2.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-msg-broker-mcollective-0:1.36.2.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-node-0:1.38.6.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.2Fixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-routing-daemon-0:0.26.6.1-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: jenkins-0:1.651.2-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: jenkins-plugin-openshift-pipeline-0:1.0.12-1.el7

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-59fm-6x3q-q3q5medium

Missing permissions check in Jenkins Core

redhatCVE-2016-3725Low

jenkins: Regular users can trigger download of update site metadata (SECURITY-273)

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1206

wiki.jenkins-ci.org / display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11

Vendor Advisory

cloudbees.com / jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11

Vendor Advisory