Bug 1205623 (CVE-2015-1808)

Summary: CVE-2015-1808 jenkins: update center metadata retrieval DoS attack (SECURITY-163)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bleanhar, ccoleman, dmcphers, jialiu, joelsmith, jokerman, lmeyer, mmccomas, msrb
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Reopened, Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Jenkins 1.600, Jenkins 1.596.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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A denial of service flaw was found in the way Jenkins handled certain update center data. An authenticated user could provide specially crafted update center data to Jenkins, causing plug-in and tool installation to not work properly.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:43:48 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1205637, 1205638, 1248781    
Bug Blocks: 1205634    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-25 10:50:45 UTC
This vulnerability allows authenticated users to disrupt the operation of Jenkins by feeding malicious update center data into Jenkins, affecting plugin installation and tool installation.

External References:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2015-02-27

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-25 11:07:04 UTC
Created jenkins tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1205637]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-04-18 09:44:04 UTC
jenkins-1.590-3.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-04-21 19:08:41 UTC
jenkins-1.606-1.fc22, jffi-1.2.7-5.fc22, jenkins-executable-war-1.29-4.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-09-30 16:37:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift Enterprise 2.2

Via RHSA-2015:1844 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1844.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-26 19:15:44 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL 7 Version of OpenShift Enterprise 3.1

Via RHSA-2016:0070 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070