High (8.1) in jenkins maven. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.jenkins-ci.plugins.m2release:m2release 0.16.2.
Jenkins Maven Release Plugin 0.16.1 and earlier does not configure the XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks, allowing man-in-the-middle attackers to have Jenkins parse crafted XML documents.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
8.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)