Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-21671  

Jenkins 2.299 and earlier does not invalidate the existing session on login. This allows attackers to use social engineering techniques to gain administrator access to Jenkins. Jenkins 2.300 invalidates the existing session on login.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Authentication bypass

Description

Jenkins 2.299 and earlier does not invalidate the existing session on login. This allows attackers to use social engineering techniques to gain administrator access to Jenkins. Jenkins 2.300 invalidates the existing session on login.

AVG-2118 jenkins 2.299-1 2.300-1 High Fixed

https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2021-06-30/#SECURITY-2371
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/25a42f3942fd9f8bd768c887c679dbc796b4fcd5