CVE-2015-1807

jenkins: directory traversal from artifacts via symlink (SECURITY-162)

Severity Score

3.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Directory traversal vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.600 and LTS before 1.596.1 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to read arbitrary files via a symlink, related to building artifacts.

Vulnerabilidad de salto de directorio en Jenkins en versiones anteriores a 1.600 y LTS en versiones anteriores a 1.596.1 permite a usuarios remotos autenticados con ciertos permisos para leer archivos arbitrarios a través de un enlace simbólico, relacionado con los objetos de construcción.

It was found that when building artifacts, the Jenkins server would follow symbolic links, potentially resulting in disclosure of information on the server.

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. Space precludes documenting all of the bug fixes in this advisory. See the OpenShift Enterprise Technical Notes, which will be updated shortly for release 2.2.7, for details about these changes. The following security issues are addressed in this release: A flaw was found in the Jenkins API token-issuing service. The service was not properly protected against anonymous users, potentially allowing remote attackers to escalate privileges.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-02-17 CVE Reserved
2015-10-01 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1844.html	2016-06-15
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070	2016-06-15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205622	2016-01-26
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2015-02-27	2016-06-15
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1807	2016-01-26

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins"		Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins"				<= 1.580.3 Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins" and version " <= 1.580.3"		lts		Affected
Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins"		Jenkins Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins"				<= 1.599 Search vendor "Jenkins" for product "Jenkins" and version " <= 1.599"		-		Affected
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