CVE-2018-1000068 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Jenkins

What is CVE-2018-1000068?

CVE-2018-1000068 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 16 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An improper input validation vulnerability exists in Jenkins versions 2.106 and earlier, and LTS 2.89.3 and earlier, that allows an attacker to access plugin resource files in the META-INF and WEB-INF directories that should not be accessible, if the Jenkins home directory is on a case-insensitive file system.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1000068?

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

Products include Jenkins Jenkins, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Automated Test Suite.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1000068?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 2.89.4 or 2.107.

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

Is CVE-2018-1000068 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1000068 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CVE-2018-1000103, GHSA-x6jw-2f23-mc5j.