CVE-2012-6072 Jenkins allows HTTP Injection and Response Splitting

What is CVE-2012-6072?

CVE-2012-6072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 24 Feb 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CRLF injection vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.491, Jenkins LTS before 1.480.1, and Jenkins Enterprise 1.424.x before 1.424.6.13, 1.447.x before 1.447.4.1, and 1.466.x before 1.466.10.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6072?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core. It affects 2 products.

Products include Cloudbees Jenkins, Jenkins Jenkins.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6072?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 1.480.1 or 1.491.

Is CVE-2012-6072 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6072 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Jenkins Jenkins

• CVE-2012-0785 Hash collision attack vulnerability in Jenkins High 7.5
• CVE-2013-2034 Jenkins Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities Medium 6.8
• CVE-2012-6073 Jenkins affected by Open Redirect Vulnerability Medium 5.8
• CVE-2012-0324 Jenkins allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 4.3
• CVE-2012-0325 Jenkins allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 4.3

All Jenkins Jenkins vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2q8v-qx2x-hxjx.