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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2016-3725: jenkins: Regular users can trigger download of update site metadata (SECURITY-273)

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2016-3725: jenkins: Regular users can trigger download of update site metadata (SECURITY-273)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check. NOTE: this issue can be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service (service disruption).

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-jenkins

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