Re: CVE-2013-6488: Jenkins fails to sanitize input before adding it to the page

[Reed Loden <reed () reedloden com>]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:02:03 +1100
Murray McAllister <mmcallis () redhat com> wrote:

> We recently received a report from Teguh P. Alko about an issue 
> affecting Jenkins. Input was not sanitized before adding it to the page. 
> The fix is public here since the start of 2013:
>
> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/f8d2a0ba6c2e261f48287bdd95bd7a2d7a8d2d0e

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2013-02-16
is the security advisory that includes the above fix.

> This could be used for copy and paste attacks, with the end result being 
> similar to that of cross-site scripting attacks. It has been assigned 
> CVE-2013-6488.

Fairly sure that's just a dupe of CVE-2013-0328. See
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/368.

> Please credit at least "Teguh P. Alko" in any advisories.

Why? He/she's not the original reporter.

> I am Cc'ing Reed to see if he knows who the other independent reporter 
> is (from that Jira "SECURITY-46" bug in the above commit; as I 
> understand it those bugs are not made public but I could be wrong).

Jenkins's SECURITY-46 maps to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819251, which I just
opened up. The reporter is "Atulkumar Hariba Shedage".

Hope that helps.

~reed