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Jenkins PegDown Formatter Plugin has Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 30, 2024

Package

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:pegdown-formatter (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 1.3

Patched versions

None

Description

PegDown Formatter Plugin uses the PegDown library to implement support for rendering Markdown formatted descriptions in Jenkins. It advertises disabling of HTML to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) as a feature.

PegDown Formatter Plugin does not prevent the use of javascript: scheme in URLs for links. This results in an XSS vulnerability exploitable by users able to configure entities with descriptions or similar properties that are rendered by the configured markup formatter.

As of publication of this advisory, there is no fix.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 7, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Mar 3, 2023
Last updated May 30, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.054%
(24th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-10374

GHSA ID

GHSA-922h-x9qv-2274

Source code

Credits

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