Protection Mechanism Failure in Pipeline: Groovy - CVE-2022-43402

 

Protection Mechanism Failure in Pipeline: Groovy - CVE-2022-43402

Published: October 24, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU68596
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 9.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43402
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient implementation of security measures in the Groovy language runtime. A remote user can bypass the sandbox protection and execute arbitrary code in the context of the Jenkins controller JVM.


Affected software

Pipeline: Groovy
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Automated Test Suite
cri-o (Red Hat package)
jenkins (Red Hat package)
jenkins-2-plugins (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-43402

Install updates from vendor's website.

Pipeline: Groovy - update to 2803.v1a_f77ffcc773
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - addressed in versions 4.9.56, 4.10.51
cri-o (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.23.5-5.rhaos4.10.gitd9dec98.el7, 1.23.5-5.rhaos4.10.gitd9dec98.el8
jenkins (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.361.1.1675668150-1.el8, 2.361.4.1675702346-3.el8, 2.387.1.1683009763-3.el8
jenkins-2-plugins (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 4.9.1675668922-1.el8, 4.10.1675144701-1.el8, 4.11.1683009941-1.el8, 4.12.1675702407-1.el8

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