CVE-2018-1999043

CVE-2018-1999043
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.67 % · percentile 77 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Modified

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.137 and earlier, 2.121.2 and earlier in BasicAuthenticationFilter.java, BasicHeaderApiTokenAuthenticator.java that allows attackers to create ephemeral in-memory user records by attempting to log in using invalid credentials.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD