High
Security advisory
Jenkins Literate Plugin 1.0 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerability.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-2158
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Jenkins Literate Plugin 1.0 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2020-2158
Complete source record
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"references": [
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