GHSA-w43x-5f8f-686p

Stored XSS vulnerability in multiple axis builds tooltips in Jenkins Matrix Project Plugin

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2020-2225

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:matrix-project	< 1.17	1.17

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Matrix Project Plugin 1.16 and earlier does not escape the axis names shown in tooltips on the overview page of builds with multiple axes. This results in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by users with Job/Configure permission. Matrix Project Plugin 1.17 escapes the axis names shown in these tooltips.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2225 advisory
https://github.com/jenkinsci/matrix-project-plugin/commit/b5f22a43147360896442c4a7719446a864898cb4 web
https://github.com/jenkinsci/matrix-project-plugin package
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-07-15/#SECURITY-1925 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/15/5 web