CVE-2018-1000057 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) CWE-522 vulnerability in org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding. A fix is available for org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin has Insufficiently Protected Credentials
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
Jenkins Credentials Binding plugin allows specifying passwords and other secrets as environment variables, and will hide them from console output in builds.
However, since Jenkins will try to resolve references to other environment variables in environment variables passed to a build, this can result in values other than the one specified being provided to a build. For example, the value p4$$w0rd would result in Jenkins passing on p4$w0rd, as $$ is the escape sequence for a single $.
Credentials Binding plugin does not prevent such a transformed value (e.g. p4$w0rd) from being shown on the build log, allowing users to reconstruct the actual password value from the transformed one.
Credentials Binding plugin will now escape any $ characters in password values so they are correctly passed to the build.
This issue did apply to freestyle and other classic job types, but does not apply to Pipelines.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding | all versions | 1.15org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding:1.15 |
Affected Products
credentials bindingjenkinsDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update org.jenkins-ci.plugins:credentials-binding to 1.15 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2018-1000057 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
Frequently Asked Questions
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