CVE-2014-2059 Jenkins directory traversal vulnerability

What is CVE-2014-2059?

CVE-2014-2059 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 28 Feb 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the CLI job creation (hudson/cli/CreateJobCommand.java) in Jenkins before 1.551 and LTS before 1.532.2 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via the job name.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2059?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Jenkins Jenkins.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2059?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 1.532.2 or 1.551.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-2059 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2059 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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Also known as GHSA-v759-3fh9-84mx.