Relax, most of the vulnerabilities so far have, er, no fix
Jenkins, an open-source automation server for continuous integration and delivery , has published 34 security advisories covering 25 plugins used to extend the software.The vulnerabilities described include: cross-site scripting ; passwords, API keys, secrets, and tokens stored in plaintext; cross-site request forgery ; and missing and incorrect permission checks.
Jenkins, he said, is fairly common and can be taken as another example of an under-supported open-source platform.Indeed, for 21 out of the 25 cited plugins, no fixes are available.from June 22, covering 28 plugins and Jenkins core software. For 14 of these plugins, no fix is available. “These kinds of flaws are not uncommon – in past research at NCC Group, we’ve found vulnerabilities in over
," said Jennifer Fernick, SVP and global head of research at NCC Group, a security consultancy, in an email to"Concerningly, several of even the high-severity vulnerabilities in today’s advisory lack patches, leaving development teams using these plugins entirely vulnerable to attack. "This is particularly concerning given the highly privileged nature of automation tools such as Jenkins, and the ways in which insecure CI/CD pipelines can enable supply chain attacks during the software development process.”
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