RHEL 8 : jenkins and jenkins-2-plugins (RHSA-2023:3663)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194242

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for jenkins / jenkins-2-plugins.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3663 advisory.

Jenkins is a continuous integration server that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

Security Fix(es):

* xstream: Denial of Service by injecting recursive collections or maps based on element's hash values raising a stack overflow (CVE-2022-41966)

* json-smart: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in json-smart (Resource Exhaustion) (CVE-2023-1370)

* springframework: Security Bypass With Un-Prefixed Double Wildcard Pattern (CVE-2023-20860)

* log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging (CVE-2023-26464)

* Jenkins: XSS vulnerability in plugin manager (CVE-2023-27898)

* Jenkins: Temporary plugin file created with insecure permissions (CVE-2023-27899)

* jenkins-2-plugin: workflow-job: Stored XSS vulnerability in Pipeline: Job Plugin (CVE-2023-32977)

* http2-server: Invalid HTTP/2 requests cause DoS (CVE-2022-2048)

* springframework: BCrypt skips salt rounds for work factor of 31 (CVE-2022-22976)

* jettison: parser crash by stackoverflow (CVE-2022-40149)

* jackson-databind: deep wrapper array nesting wrt UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS (CVE-2022-42003)

* jackson-databind: use of deeply nested arrays (CVE-2022-42004)

* jettison: Uncontrolled Recursion in JSONArray (CVE-2023-1436)

* jenkins-2-plugin: pipeline-utility-steps: Arbitrary file write vulnerability on agents in Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin (CVE-2023-32981)

* jettison: memory exhaustion via user-supplied XML or JSON data (CVE-2022-40150)

* Jenkins: Temporary file parameter created with insecure permissions (CVE-2023-27903)

* Jenkins: Information disclosure through error stack traces related to agents (CVE-2023-27904)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL jenkins / jenkins-2-plugins packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:3663.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194242

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3663.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22976

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27898

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jenkins-2-plugins

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2048, CVE-2022-22976, CVE-2022-40149, CVE-2022-40150, CVE-2022-41966, CVE-2022-42003, CVE-2022-42004, CVE-2023-1370, CVE-2023-1436, CVE-2023-20860, CVE-2023-26464, CVE-2023-27898, CVE-2023-27899, CVE-2023-27903, CVE-2023-27904, CVE-2023-32977, CVE-2023-32981

CWE: 155, 190, 200, 266, 378, 400, 410, 502, 674, 787, 79

RHSA: 2023:3663

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