CVE-2014-3661

jenkins: denial of service (SECURITY-87)

Severity Score

5.3

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Jenkins en versiones anteriores a 1.583 y LTS en versiones anteriores a 1.565.3 permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (consumo de hilo) a través de vectores relacionados con un apretón de manos en CLI.

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. The following security issues are addressed with this release: An authorization flaw was discovered in Kubernetes; the API server did not properly check user permissions when handling certain requests. An authenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to gain additional access to resources such as RAM and disk space.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2014-05-14 CVE Reserved
2014-10-16 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-31 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-399: Resource Management Errors
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070	2023-02-13
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2014-10-01	2023-02-13
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3661	2016-01-26
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147758	2016-01-26

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Openshift Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openshift"				<= 3.1 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openshift" and version " <= 3.1"		enterprise		Affected
Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins"		Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins"				<= 1.582 Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins" and version " <= 1.582"		-		Affected
Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins"		Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins"				<= 1.565.2 Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins" and version " <= 1.565.2"		lts		Affected