Ephemeral User Record Creation Affecting org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core package, versions [,2.138.2)[2.140, 2.146)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGJENKINSCIMAIN-73609
  • published9 Jan 2019
  • disclosed9 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-1000408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-286  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to version 2.138.2, 2.146 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Ephemeral User Record Creation via the getUser function. A malicious user without Overall/Read permission could 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.

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