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Jenkins Advisory 2018-07-18: CVE-2018-1999004: Unauthorized users could initiate and abort agent launches

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

Description

A Improper authorization vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.132 and earlier, 2.121.1 and earlier in SlaveComputer.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to initiate agent launches, and abort in-progress agent launches.

Solutions

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