Job Config History Plugin up to 2.18 on Jenkins Reflected cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Job Config History Plugin up to 2.18 on Jenkins. It has been classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting (Reflected). This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2018-1000416. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Job Config History Plugin up to 2.18 on Jenkins (Jenkins Plugin). This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Reflected). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Jenkins Job Config History Plugin 2.18 and earlier in all Jelly files that shows arbitrary attacker-specified HTML in Jenkins to users with Job/Configure access.

The bug was discovered 09/25/2018. The weakness was disclosed 01/09/2019 with CloudBees, Inc. (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at jenkins.io. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-1000416 since 01/09/2019. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 106 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106532†). The entries VDB-128837, VDB-128838, VDB-128839 and VDB-128840 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Jenkins Plugin

Name

• Job Config History Plugin

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18

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