CVE-2020-2229

lowpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.068 · 94 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

6.77% (94th) EPSS

CVSS 3.5 · low

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Jenkins 2.251 and earlier, LTS 2.235.3 and earlier does not escape the tooltip content of help icons, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.5–8

v2.03.5lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 2.9

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.3 · impact 2.7

v3.08highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-79USprimaryCWE-79US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-49232Jenkins 2.235.3 - 'tooltip' Stored Cross-Site ScriptingPoC · exploit_db

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Jenkins Project Jenkins≤ unspecified ≤LTS 2.235.3enisa_euvdEU
Jenkins Project Jenkins≤ unspecified ≤2.251enisa_euvdEU
jenkins jenkins≤ 2.251nvdUScpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
jenkins jenkins≤ 2.235.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:jenkins:jenkins:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami jenkins< 2.251.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/jenkins
Maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core< 2.235.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.jenkins-ci.main/jenkins-core
Maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core2.236 → 2.252osvUSpkg:maven/org.jenkins-ci.main/jenkins-core

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-hvmc-7g2x-r3p9Jenkins Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in help icons2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
Jenkins 2.251 and earlier, LTS 2.235.3 and earlier does not escape the tooltip content of help icons. Tooltip values can be contributed by plugins, some of which use user-specified values. This results in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Jenkins 2.252, LTS 2.235.4 escapes the tooltip content of help icons.
BIT-jenkins-2020-22292024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Jenkins 2.251 and earlier, LTS 2.235.3 and earlier does not escape the tooltip content of help icons, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-08-12modified 2026-06-17

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