CVE-2018-1000183 — A exposure of sensitive information vulnerability exists in Jenkins GitHub Plugi

A exposure of sensitive information vulnerability exists in Jenkins GitHub Plugin 1.29.0 and older in GitHubServerConfig.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read access to connect to an attacker-specified URL using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another m

01What is this vulnerability?

A exposure of sensitive information vulnerability exists in Jenkins GitHub Plugin 1.29.0 and older in GitHubServerConfig.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read access to connect to an attacker-specified URL using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another method, capturing credentials stored in Jenkins.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-05T20:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T03:07:20.357Z

09References

• jenkins.io — https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2018-06-04/#SECURITY-804