Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-1999043: jenkins: Ephemeral user record was created on some invalid authentication attempts
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/23/2018
04/22/2019
04/15/2019
05/10/2023
Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.137 and earlier, 2.121.2 and earlier in BasicAuthenticationFilter.java, BasicHeaderApiTokenAuthenticator.java that allows attackers to create ephemeral in-memory user records by attempting to log in using invalid credentials.
Solution(s)
- linuxrpm-upgrade-jenkins
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