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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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGJENKINSCIMAIN-73609
  • published 9 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 9 Jan 2019
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-1000408 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-286 Open this link 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.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low