Stored cross-site scripting in Jenkins LTS and Jenkins - CVE-2019-10383
Published: September 16, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21117
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10383
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of the update site URL in some status messages shown in the update center. A remote authenticated administrator can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Jenkins LTS
Jenkins
Arch Linux
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Jenkins
Arch Linux
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10383
Install updates from vendor's website.
Jenkins LTS - update to 2.176.3
Jenkins - update to 2.192
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.1.16
Jenkins - update to 2.192
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.1.16