Maven
CVE-2019-16550
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in a connection test form method in Jenkins Maven Release Plugin 0.16.1 and earlier allows attackers to have Jenkins connect to an attacker specified web. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement anti-CSRF tokens, validate Origin/Referer headers, use SameSite cookie attribute.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352), which allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in a connection test form method in Jenkins Maven Release Plugin 0.16.1 and earlier allows attackers to have Jenkins connect to an attacker specified web server and parse XML documents. Affected products include: Jenkins Maven.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in a connection test form method in Jenkins Maven Release Plugin 0.16.1 and earlier allows attackers to have Jenkins connect to an attacker specified web server and parse XML documents.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Apache Maven will follow repositories that are defined in a dependency’s Project Object Model (pom) which may be surpris
Jenkins Maven Release Plugin 0.16.1 and earlier does not configure the XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) a
An issue was discovered in the Maven Extension plugin before 1.6 for Gradle Enterprise. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8),
In DiffPlug Spotless before 1.20.0 (library and Maven plugin) and before 3.20.0 (Gradle plugin), the XML parser would re
A directory traversal issue was discovered in Gradle gradle-enterprise-test-distribution-agent before 1.3.2, test-distri
Jenkins Maven Integration Plugin 3.3 and earlier did not apply build log decorators to module builds, potentially reveal
The default configuration of Apache Maven 3.0.4, when using Maven Wagon 2.1, disables SSL certificate checks, which allo
GitHub PoC
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