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Jenkins Advisory 2017-12-14: CVE-2017-1000503: Random failures to initialize the setup wizard on startup

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 24, 2018
Added
Jan 29, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A race condition during Jenkins 2.81 through 2.94 (inclusive); 2.89.1 startup could result in the wrong order of execution of commands during initialization. This could in rare cases result in failure to initialize the setup wizard on the first startup. This resulted in multiple security-related settings not being set to their usual strict default.

Solutions

jenkins-lts-upgrade-2_81jenkins-lts-upgrade-latestjenkins-upgrade-2_95
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