CVE-2023-27898

State: Published
Severity: 9.6 Critical
Published: Mar 8, 2023
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Reserved: Mar 7, 2023

Description

Jenkins 2.270 through 2.393 (both inclusive), LTS 2.277.1 through 2.375.3 (both inclusive) does not escape the Jenkins version a plugin depends on when rendering the error message stating its incompatibility with the current version of Jenkins, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to provide plugins to the configured update sites and have this message shown by Jenkins instances.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.6 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
JenkinsJenkins Project	2.270 to before 2.*Affectedfrom 2.375.4Not affectedfrom 2.376Affectedfrom 2.387.1Not affectedfrom 2.388Affectedfrom 2.394Not affected

References

Jenkins Security Advisory 2023-03-08vendor-advisory

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