Top
image credit: Pexels

Jenkins Server Vulnerabilities Chained for Remote Code Execution 

March 9, 2023

Tracked as CVE-2023-27898 and CVE-2023-27905 and impacting both Jenkins Server and Update Center, the two security defects are described as cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs that can be exploited by providing a malicious plugin.

Rated ‘high severity’, CVE-2023-27898 exists because Jenkins “does not escape the Jenkins version a plugin depends on when rendering the error message stating its incompatibility with the current version of Jenkins in the plugin manager”.

Read More on Security Week