High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 24, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-1000502

Description

Users with permission to create or configure agents in Jenkins 1.37 and earlier could configure an EC2 agent to run arbitrary shell commands on the master node whenever the agent was supposed to be launched. Configuration of these agents now requires the 'Run Scripts' permission typically only granted to administrators.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ec2Maven	< 1.38	1.38

Affected products

Jenkins Project/Ec2
cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:ec2:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*
Range: <=1.37
ghsa-coords
pkg:maven/org.jenkins-ci.plugins/ec2
Range: < 1.38

Patches

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References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp79-cpv2-9g7mghsaADVISORY
jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-12-06/nvdVendor Advisory
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000502ghsaADVISORY
jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-12-06ghsaWEB

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