Bug 1205632 (CVE-2015-1811)

Summary: CVE-2015-1811 jenkins: External entity processing in XML can reveal sensitive local files (SECURITY-167)
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, java-sig-commits, jdetiber, jialiu, jkeck, joelsmith, jokerman, kseifried, lmeyer, mmccomas, msrb
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: 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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It was found that Jenkins' XML handling allowed XML External Entity (XXE) expansion. A remote attacker with the ability to pass XML data to Jenkins could use this flaw to read arbitrary XML files on the Jenkins server.
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Last Closed: 2015-09-30 16:43:31 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1205637, 1205638, 1248781    
Bug Blocks: 1205634    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-25 10:59:00 UTC
This vulnerability allows attackers to create malicious XML documents and feed that into Jenkins, which causes Jenkins to retrieve arbitrary XML document on the server, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information inside/outside Jenkins.

External References:

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

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-25 11:08:38 UTC
Created jenkins tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1205637]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-04-18 09:44:13 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 19:08:56 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 16:37:24 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