Jenkins Denial of Service vulnerability
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Affected versions
1.566 → fixed in 1.5830 → fixed in 1.565.3
Details
Jenkins before 1.583 and LTS before 1.565.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread consumption) via vectors related to a CLI handshake.
The fix
No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.
References
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3661
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014:1630
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3661
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147758
- WEBhttps://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2014-10-01