The library "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient" (4.0.1) included in google-compute-engine-plugin contains a vulnerability. Please update the plugin to use the https://github.com/jenkinsci/apache-httpcomponents-client-4-api-plugin.

It's currently included through google-http-client (pom.xml#L131-L135).

• CVE-2014-3577
• CVE-2011-1498
• CVE-2012-6153

Although the plugin may not use the dependency the way it's exploitable, it's better to avoid the buggy dependency in order to:

• avoid security reports warning about that
• avoid future risky uses of the library that may exploit the vulnerability

If you like, you can use the bom approach to avoid dealing with the right version, it will take the one used by Jenkins core: https://jenkins.io/doc/developer/plugin-development/dependency-management/

Thank you.

by Ramón León