Important: OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins security update

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for jenkins-2-plugins is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Jenkins is a continuous integration server that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

Security Fix(es):

• openshift/jenkins-plugin: Deserialization in snakeyaml YAML() objects allowed for remote code execution (CVE-2020-2167)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

See the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release
3.11.188, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully
apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.11/release_notes/ocp_3_11_release_notes.html

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the
Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 3.11 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1816433 - CVE-2020-2167 openshift/jenkins-plugin: Deserialization in snakeyaml YAML() objects allows for remote code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2020-2167

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important