CVE-2016-3725 (GCVE-0-2016-3725)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-17 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
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Summary
Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users to trigger updating of update site metadata by leveraging a missing permissions check. NOTE: this issue can be combined with DNS cache poisoning to cause a denial of service (service disruption).
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-05-11 00:00
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