Privilege Escalation Affecting org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core package, versions [,1.596.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGJENKINSCIMAIN-32326
  • published28 May 2018
  • disclosed27 Feb 2015
  • creditSteven Christou

Introduced: 27 Feb 2015

CVE-2015-1810  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to version 1.596.1 or higher.

Overview

org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core is an open-source automation server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via the HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm class. It does not restrict access to reserved names when using the Jenkins own user database setting, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges by creating a reserved name.

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