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Missing permissions check in Jenkins Core

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core (Maven)

Affected versions

< 2.3

Patched versions

2.3

Description

Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check. NOTE: this issue can be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service (service disruption).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 17, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Nov 2, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-3725

GHSA ID

GHSA-59fm-6x3q-q3q5

Source code

No known source code
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