vulnerability

Jenkins Advisory 2018-07-18: CVE-2018-1999001: Users without Overall/Read permission can have Jenkins reset parts of global configuration on the next restart

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 23, 2018
Added
Aug 10, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A unauthorized modification of configuration vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.132 and earlier, 2.121.1 and earlier in User.java that allows attackers to provide crafted login credentials that cause Jenkins to move the config.xml file from the Jenkins home directory. If Jenkins is started without this file present, it will revert to the legacy defaults of granting administrator access to anonymous users.

Solutions

jenkins-lts-upgrade-2_121_2jenkins-upgrade-2_133
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