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CVE-2019-16555

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

A user-supplied regular expression in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 1.24.1 and earlier was processed in a way that wasn't interruptible, allowing attackers to have Jenkins evaluate a regular expression without the ability to interrupt this process.

Affected products

• Jenkins project Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin: through 1.24.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/17/1
• https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2019-12-17/#SECURITY-1651
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/17/1
• https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2019-12-17/#SECURITY-1651

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