CVE-2013-5573

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-12-16
Bugzilla:
1044976: CVE-2013-5573 jenkins: default markup formatter permits offsite-bound forms (SECURITY-88)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the default markup formatter in Jenkins 1.523 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field in the user configuration.

Find out more about CVE-2013-5573 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.7
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Multiple
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
RHOSE Client 2.0 (jenkins) RHBA-2014:1630 2014-10-14

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 jenkins Will not fix

Mitigation

'MyspacePolicy' permits
tag("form", "action", ONSITE_OR_OFFSITE_URL, "method");

Fix 'MyspacePolicy' by restricting the policy to ONSITE_URL only or perhaps <form> could be banned entirely.

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