CVE-2023-32990 — A missing permission check in Jenkins Azure VM Agents Plugin 852

A missing permission check in Jenkins Azure VM Agents Plugin 852.v8d35f0960a_43 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to connect to an attacker-specified Azure Cloud server using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another method.

01What is this vulnerability?

A missing permission check in Jenkins Azure VM Agents Plugin 852.v8d35f0960a_43 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to connect to an attacker-specified Azure Cloud server using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another method.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Jenkins Project	Jenkins Azure VM Agents Plugin	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-05-16T16:00:10.379Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-23T20:16:09.691Z

09References

• www.jenkins.io — https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-05-16/#SECURITY-2855%20(2