CVE-2015-5318: Jenkins Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attack

May 13, 2022 (updated March 13, 2025)

Jenkins before 1.638 and LTS before 1.625.2 uses a publicly accessible salt to generate CSRF protection tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the CSRF protection mechanism via a brute force attack.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070
github.com/advisories/GHSA-3wmv-7php-rhg5
github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins
github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/f53802bb82a25b295b6dfa3bf2a591a6c8552183
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5318
wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2015-11-11

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