Medium
Security advisory
A missing permission check in Jenkins database Plugin 1.6 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read access to Jenkins to connect to an attacker-specified database server using attacker-specified credentials.
- Products
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- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-2242
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A missing permission check in Jenkins database Plugin 1.6 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read access to Jenkins to connect to an attacker-specified database server using attacker-specified credentials.
osv:CVE-2020-2242
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.949708625Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-09-01/#SECURITY-1024"
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