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high 7.5

CVE-2018-1999043 json

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Jenkins

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-2632-h32j-6rg9 , EUVD-2022-1912

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core 2.121.3, 2.138
  • cri-o openshift 3.11 1.11.10-1.rhaos3.11.git42c86f0.el7
  • kibana openshift 3.11 5.6.13-1.el7
  • jenkins openshift 3.11 2.138.2.1542054911-1.el7
  • prometheus openshift 3.11 3.11.51-1.git.5023.0ad933c.el7
  • atomic-openshift openshift 3.11 3.11.51-1.git.0.1560686.el7
  • jenkins-2-plugins openshift 3.11 3.11.1542061886-1.el7
  • openshift-ansible openshift 3.11 3.11.51-2.git.0.51c90a3.el7
  • atomic-openshift-pod openshift 3.11 3.11.51-1.git.0.1560686.el7

red hat advisories RHBA-2018:3743

  • jenkins Arch Linux 2.146-1

arch linux advisories AVG-778

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1999043 updated cvss 6.5

jenkins: Ephemeral user record was created on some invalid authentication attempts

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 jenkins
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 kibana 5.6.13-1.el7, jenkins 2.138.2.1542054911-1.el7, jenkins-2-plugins 3.11.1542061886-1.el7, cri-o 1.11.10-1.rhaos3.11.git42c86f0.el7, prometheus 3.11.51-1.git.5023.0ad933c.el7, atomic-openshift 3.11.51-1.git.0.1560686.el7, +35 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2018:3743
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.main:jenkins-core
<2.121.3
>=2.122, <2.138
2.121.3
2.138

Classification

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