#VU23670 Cross-site request forgery in Build Failure Analyzer - CVE-2019-16553
Published: December 18, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU23670
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16553
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Build Failure Analyzer
Build Failure Analyzer
Software vendor:
Jenkins
Jenkins
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as supply a computationally expensive regular expression that will hang the request handling thread.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.