7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-1999043

Published: 23/08/2018 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.137 and previous versions, 2.121.2 and previous versions in BasicAuthenticationFilter.java, BasicHeaderApiTokenAuthenticator.java that allows malicious users to create ephemeral in-memory user records by attempting to log in using invalid credentials.

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Vendor Advisories

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2137 and earlier, 21212 and earlier in BasicAuthenticationFilterjava, BasicHeaderApiTokenAuthenticatorjava that allows attackers to create ephemeral in-memory user records by attempting to log in using invalid credentials ...
A security issue has been found in Jenkins version prior to 2146 When attempting to authenticate using API token, an ephemeral user record was created to validate the token in case an external security realm was used, and the user record in Jenkins not previously saved, as (legacy) API tokens could exist without a persisted user record This beha ...