CVE-2020-2100 Jenkins vulnerable to UDP amplification reflection attack

What is CVE-2020-2100?

CVE-2020-2100 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 29 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Jenkins 2.218 and earlier, LTS 2.204.1 and earlier was vulnerable to a UDP amplification reflection denial of service attack on port 33848.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2100?

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

Products include Jenkins Jenkins.

How do I fix CVE-2020-2100?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 2.204.2 or 2.219.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-2100 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2100 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 BIT-jenkins-2020-2100, GHSA-gpxv-776p-7gc7.