CVE-2020-2160 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Jenkins

What is CVE-2020-2160?

CVE-2020-2160 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jenkins Jenkins, published on 25 Mar 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Jenkins 2.227 and earlier, LTS 2.204.5 and earlier uses different representations of request URL paths, which allows attackers to craft URLs that allow bypassing CSRF protection of any target URL.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2160?

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-2020-2160?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core to a fixed version for your release line: 2.204.6 or 2.228.

Is CVE-2020-2160 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2160 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-jenkins-2020-2160, GHSA-c735-g9f2-2mvp.