PT-2016-5682 · Cloudbees+1 · Jenkins

James Nord · Published 2016-05-17 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2016-3725

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Jenkins versions prior to 2.3 Jenkins LTS versions prior to 1.651.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata due to a missing permissions check. This can potentially be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service, resulting in service disruption.

Recommendations For Jenkins versions prior to 2.3, update to version 2.3 or later. For Jenkins LTS versions prior to 1.651.2, update to version 1.651.2 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-280

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-3725

GHSA-59FM-6X3Q-Q3Q5

RHSA-2016:1206

RHSA-2016:1773

Affected Products

Jenkins

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3725 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3725 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1206 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1773.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cloudbees.com/jenkins-security-advisory-2016-05-11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-05-11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-59fm-6x3q-q3q5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3725 · Note