CVE-2022-20616 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin

What is CVE-2022-20616?

CVE-2022-20616 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin, published on 12 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin 1.27 and earlier does not perform a permission check in a method implementing form validation, allowing attackers with Overall/Read access to validate if a credential ID refers to a secret file credential and whether it's a zip file.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20616?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding. It affects 1 product.

Products include Jenkins Credentials Binding.

How do I fix CVE-2022-20616?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding to a fixed version for your release line: 1.24.1 or 1.27.1.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-20616 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20616 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin

• CVE-2026-48922 Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin does not properly sanitize file names for file and zip file credentials High 7.5
• CVE-2026-42520 Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin has a path traversal vulnerability High 7.5
• CVE-2025-53650 Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin vulnerability can expose sensitive information in logger messages High 7.3
• CVE-2020-2181 Secrets are not masked by Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin in builds without build steps Medium 6.5
• CVE-2019-1010241 Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin Stores Passwords in a Recoverable Format Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-gqm2-2gcx-p88w.