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Jenkins Advisory 2018-10-10: CVE-2018-1000408: Ephemeral user record creation

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Jenkins Advisory 2018-10-10: CVE-2018-1000408: Ephemeral user record creation

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/09/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/23/2019
Modified
01/31/2019

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.145 and earlier, LTS 2.138.1 and earlier in core/src/main/java/hudson/security/HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm.java that allows attackers without Overall/Read permission to access a specific URL on instances using the built-in Jenkins user database security realm that results in the creation of an ephemeral user record in memory.

Solution(s)

  • jenkins-lts-upgrade-2_138_2
  • jenkins-upgrade-2_146

References

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