Discussion:
[oss-security] Multiple vulnerabilities in Jenkins
Daniel Beck
2018-10-10 15:11:42 UTC
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Jenkins is an open source automation server which enables developers around
the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software. The following
releases contain fixes for security vulnerabilities:

* Jenkins weekly 2.146
* Jenkins LTS 2.138.2

Summaries of the vulnerabilities are below. More details, severity, and
attribution can be found here:
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2018-10-10/

We provide advance notification for security updates on this mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/jenkinsci-advisories

If you discover security vulnerabilities in Jenkins, please report them as
described here:
https://jenkins.io/security/#reporting-vulnerabilities

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SECURITY-867
A path traversal vulnerability in Stapler allowed viewing routable objects
with views defined on any type. This could be used to access internal data
of routable objects, e.g. by showing their string representation (#toString).


SECURITY-1074
Users with Job/Configure permission could specify a relative path escaping
the base directory in the file name portion of a file parameter definition.
This path would be used to archive the uploaded file on the Jenkins master,
resulting in an arbitrary file write vulnerability.

File parameters that escape the base directory are no longer accepted and
the build will fail.


SECURITY-1129
The wrapper query parameter for the XML variant of the Jenkins remote API
did not validate the specified tag name. This resulted in a reflected cross-
site scripting vulnerability.

Only legal XML tag names are now allowed for the wrapper query parameter.


SECURITY-1162 / CVE-2018-1999043
When attempting to authenticate using API token, an ephemeral user record
was created to validate the token in case an external security realm was
used, and the user record in Jenkins not previously saved, as (legacy) API
tokens could exist without a persisted user record.

This behavior could be abused to create a large number of ephemeral user
records in memory.

This is the same vulnerability as SECURITY-672. The fix for SECURITY-672
was previously incorrectly applied and therefore not effective. This has
been fixed.


SECURITY-1128
By accessing a specific crafted URL on Jenkins instances using Jenkins' own
user database, users without Overall/Read access could create ephemeral
user records.

This behavior could be abused to create a large number of ephemeral user
records in memory.

Accessing this URL now no longer results in a user record getting created.


SECURITY-1158
When signing up for a new user account on instances using Jenkins' own user
database, Jenkins did not invalidate the existing session and create a new
one. This allowed session fixation.

Jenkins now invalidates the existing session and creates a new one when
logging in after user signup.


SECURITY-765
When Jenkins fails to process form submissions due to an internal error,
the error message shown to the user and written to the log typically
includes the serialized JSON form submission. Secrets, such as submitted
passwords, might be included with the JSON object, and shown or written to
disk in plain text.

Jenkins now masks values in these error messages from view if they were
shown on the UI as password form fields.

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