CVE-2017-1000392 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Jenkins

What is CVE-2017-1000392?

CVE-2017-1000392 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 26 Jan 2018. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Jenkins 2.88 and earlier; 2.73.2 and earlier Autocompletion suggestions for text fields were not escaped, resulting in a persisted cross-site scripting vulnerability if the source for the suggestions allowed specifying text that includes HTML metacharacters like less-than and greater-than characters.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1000392?

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-2017-1000392?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 2.73.3 or 2.89.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2017-1000392 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1000392 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5ppx-rgw2-xg23.