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Jenkins Advisory 2018-08-15: CVE-2018-1999044: Cron expression form validation could enter infinite loop, potentially resulting in denial of service

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Jenkins Advisory 2018-08-15: CVE-2018-1999044: Cron expression form validation could enter infinite loop, potentially resulting in denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/23/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/21/2019
Modified
07/12/2022

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.137 and earlier, 2.121.2 and earlier in CronTab.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to have a request handling thread enter an infinite loop.

Solution(s)

  • jenkins-lts-upgrade-2_121_3
  • jenkins-upgrade-2_138

References

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