Revised 2016-05-12:**Added CJP-4586**
This advisory announces multiple vulnerabilities in Jenkins, and a vulnerability in CloudBees Operations Center Context Plugin.
Arbitrary build parameters are passed to build scripts as environment variables
SECURITY-170 / CVE-2016-3721
Build parameters in Jenkins typically are passed to build scripts as environment variables. Some plugins allow passing arbitrary (undeclared) parameters. Depending on access permissions and installed plugins, malicious users were able to trigger builds, passing arbitrary environment variables (e.g. PATH) to modify the behavior of those builds. Rather than expect all plugin authors to be aware of this potential problem, Jenkins now filters the build parameters based on what is defined on the job.
As this change is known to affect a number of plugins, it's possible to restore the previous behavior by setting the system property hudson.model.ParametersAction.keepUndefinedParameters to true . This is potentially very unsafe and intended as a short-term workaround only.
To allow specific, known safe parameter names to be passed to builds, set the system property hudson.model.ParametersAction.safeParameters to a comma-separated list of safe parameter names. Example:
java -Dhudson.model.ParametersAction.safeParameters=FOO,BAR_BAZ,qux -jar jenkins.war
Malicious users with multiple user accounts can prevent other users from logging in
SECURITY-243 / CVE-2016-3722
By changing the freely editable 'full name', malicious users with multiple user accounts could prevent other users from logging in, as 'full name' was resolved before actual user name to determine which account is currently trying to log in.
Information on installed plugins exposed via API
SECURITY-250 / CVE-2016-3723
The XML/JSON API endpoints providing information about installed plugins were missing permissions checks, allowing any user with read access to Jenkins to determine which plugins and versions were installed.
Encrypted secrets (e.g. passwords) were leaked to users with permission to read configuration
SECURITY-266 / CVE-2016-3724
Users with extended read access could access encrypted secrets stored directly in the configuration of those items.
As a side-effect of this change, copying a job that contains secrets in its configuration now requires the Configure permission on that job.
Regular users can trigger download of update site metadata
SECURITY-273 / CVE-2016-3725
A missing permissions check allowed any user with access to Jenkins to trigger an update of update site metadata. This could be combined with DNS cache poisoning to disrupt Jenkins service.
Open redirect to scheme-relative URLs
SECURITY-276 / CVE-2016-3726
Some Jenkins URLs did not properly validate the redirect URLs, which allowed malicious users to create URLs that redirect users to arbitrary scheme-relative URLs.
Granting the permission to read node configurations allows access to overall system configuration
SECURITY-281 / CVE-2016-3727
The API URL /computer/(master)/api/xml allowed users with the 'extended read' permission for the master node to see some global Jenkins configuration, including the configuration of the security realm.
This URL now unconditionally sends HTTP 400 Bad Request when accessed. There is no workaround.
Users without permission to configure a job could copy and promote it
CJP-4586
CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center allows copying, moving and promoting items between Jenkins instances. Permissions weren’t checked correctly, so that users without permission to configure the source item and/or its child items could act on it, both gaining access to previously inaccessible child items, as well as resulting in secret disclosure similar to SECURITY-266.