Medium (5.6) in jenkins vsphere. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.jenkins-ci.plugins:vsphere-cloud 2.17.
A man in the middle vulnerability exists in Jenkins vSphere Plugin 2.16 and older in VSphere.java that disables SSL/TLS certificate validation by default.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
5.6 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)