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LowGHSA-9h85-v6xf-h26q CVE-2015-1813CWE-79Published May 17, 2022

Jenkins allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

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Affected versions

1.597 → fixed in 1.6060 → fixed in 1.596.2

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.606 and LTS before 1.596.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1812.

The fix

[FIXED SECURITY-171]

Kohsuke Kawaguchi· Mar 7, 2015, 06:28 PM+1−1feb2703adb
core/src/main/java/hudson/util/FormValidation.java+1 −1
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ private static FormValidation _error(Kind kind, Throwable e, String message) {
             " <a href='#' class='showDetails'>"
             + Messages.FormValidation_Error_Details()
             + "</a><pre style='display:none'>"
-            + Functions.printThrowable(e) +
+            + Util.escape(Functions.printThrowable(e)) +
             "</pre>",kind
         );
     }

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