Stored cross-site scripting in Jenkins - CVE-2019-10406
Published: September 26, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21358
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-2019-10406
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software does not restrict or filter values set as Jenkins URL in the global configuration. A remote authenticated user with Overall/Administer permission can permanently inject 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
jenkins (Alpine package)
jenkins (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10406
Install update from vendor's website.
Jenkins - update to 2.197
jenkins (Alpine package) - update to 2.199-r0
jenkins (Alpine package) - update to 2.199-r0