SB2018012535 - Race condition in Jenkins
Published: January 25, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018012535
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000503)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
A race condition during Jenkins 2.81 through 2.94 (inclusive); 2.89.1 startup could result in the wrong order of execution of commands during initialization. This could in rare cases result in failure to initialize the setup wizard on the first startup. This resulted in multiple security-related settings not being set to their usual strict default.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.