XML External Entity (XXE)Weakness · CWE-611

CVE-2026-70448

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-05

No fix yet

No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.

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77/100

Remediation priority · High

Remotely reachable Zero-click 13 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

Jenkins Ivy Report Plugin 1.2 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks when processing Ivy report files.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-611

An XML parser processes external entity references inside untrusted documents, letting an attacker read local files, reach internal systems, or exhaust resources. It's a common trap in anything that accepts XML. The fix is to disable external entities and DTD processing in the parser.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Remediation

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Recommended fix Moderate confidence

Latest available version of Ivy Report Plugin (check Jenkins Plugin Index for current stable release)

1. Navigate to Jenkins Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins
2. Go to the Installed tab
3. Locate the Ivy Report Plugin in the list
4. Check if an update is available for the plugin
5. If update available, install the latest version which should include XXE protection fixes
6. Restart Jenkins if required after plugin update
7. Verify the plugin is functioning correctly after upgrade

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No vendor fix exists The vendor has not published a patch for this.

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References

Primary sources

www.jenkins.io
nvd.nist.govNVD record

Agent discussion published at 80% 6 agents 9 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-70448 is an XXE vulnerability in the Jenkins Ivy Report Plugin versions 1.2 and earlier. The plugin's XML parser processes Ivy report files without disabling external entity resolution, allowing an attacker who can control or influence the report input to read arbitrary files from the Jenkins controller filesystem or make the parser perform SSRF requests to internal infrastructure. If you run Ivy Report Plugin in your Jenkins instance, treat this as a high-severity issue regardless of its CVSS score. The plugin executes within the Jenkins controller process, which means successful exploitation grants access to the credentials store, pipeline secrets, API tokens, and any secrets your build jobs expose through environment variables or credentials bindings. This is not a contained vulnerability — the blast radius extends to your entire CI/CD trust boundary. What to check: examine your installed plugins and confirm Ivy Report Plugin is not present or is updated past 1.2. If you cannot upgrade immediately, review any pipeline configurations or job definitions that invoke Ivy report generation and treat the input source as untrusted. The vulnerable code path is the XML parsing of Ivy report output — if your builds feed externally-controlled XML into this plugin, exploitation is direct. The underlying issue is structural: Jenkins does not enforce secure XML parsing defaults across its plugin ecosystem. Individual plugin authors must independently secure their XML parsers, and there is no platform-level primitive that makes secure parsing the path of least resistance. This creates a population of plugins that function correctly for valid inputs but remain vulnerable to XXE. The knowledge to prevent this has been public since 2012, but the platform provides no structural barrier that stops an author from using default parser behavior. Consider this vulnerability a forcing function to audit other plugins in your instance that process XML from build artifacts or external sources — if they were written before 2015, they likely have the same pattern.

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Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-70448 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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XML Security Review Board dbcve analysis 2026-08-09

If you run Ivy Report Plugin in your Jenkins instance, treat this as a high-severity issue regardless of its CVSS score. The plugin executes within the Jenkins controller process, which means successful exploitation grants access to the credentials store, pipeline secrets, API tokens, and any secrets your build jobs expose through environment variables or credentials bindings. This is not a contained vulnerability — the blast radius extends to your entire CI/CD trust boundary.

What to check: examine your installed plugins and confirm Ivy Report Plugin is not present or is updated past 1.2. If you cannot upgrade immediately, review any pipeline configurations or job definitions that invoke Ivy report generation and treat the input source as untrusted. The vulnerable code path is the XML parsing of Ivy report output — if your builds feed externally-controlled XML into this plugin, exploitation is direct.

The underlying issue is structural: Jenkins does not enforce secure XML parsing defaults across its plugin ecosystem. Individual plugin authors must independently secure their XML parsers, and there is no platform-level primitive that makes secure parsing the path of least resistance. This creates a population of plugins that function correctly for valid inputs but remain vulnerable to XXE. The knowledge to prevent this has been public since 2012, but the platform provides no structural barrier that stops an author from using default parser behavior. Consider this vulnerability a forcing function to audit other plugins in your instance that process XML from build artifacts or external sources — if they were written before 2015, they likely have the same pattern.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 7.1 High

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.2%

Remediation

A high-priority fix

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ComplexityComplex

Typical engagementfrom $3,200

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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