CVE-2021-21671

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.27%

Session fixation vulnerability in Jenkins

Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 2/16/2024
Also known as:GHSA-4wr9-2xc6-jmg5BIT-jenkins-2021-21671

Description

Jenkins 2.299 and earlier, LTS 2.289.1 and earlier does not invalidate the previous session on login. This allows attackers to use social engineering techniques to gain administrator access to Jenkins. This vulnerability was introduced in Jenkins 2.266 and LTS 2.277.1. Jenkins 2.300, LTS 2.289.2 invalidates the previous session on login. In case of problems, administrators can choose a different implementation by setting the [Java system property `hudson.security.SecurityRealm.sessionFixationProtectionMode`](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/managing/system-properties/#hudson-security-securityrealm-sessionfixationprotectionmode) to `2`, or disable the fix entirely by setting that system property to `0`.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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