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CVE-2019-16554· NVD / CVE Program· CNA jenkins

A missing permission check in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 1.24.1 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to have

A missing permission check in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 1.24.1 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to have Jenkins evaluate a computationally expensive regular expression.

MediumCVSS 4.3 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 17, 2019
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.8% · 55th percentile
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Action score

17

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.8%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
jenkinsbuild failure analyzer

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • jenkins build failure analyzerup to 1.24.1 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (jenkins). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Jenkins project Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin

    • unspecified and later · up to and including 1.24.1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Mavencom.sonyericsson.jenkins.plugins.bfa:build-failure-analyzerbefore 1.24.21.24.2

Same product

jenkins: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-43500A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 2.4.1 and earlier allows attackers to connect to
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16553A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 1.24.1 and earlier allows attackers to have Jenkins eval
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2023-43501A missing permission check in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 2.4.1 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to conne
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16555A user-supplied regular expression in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 1.24.1 and earlier was processed in a way that wasn't interrupti
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2016-4988Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Build Failure Analyzer plugin before 1.16.0 in Jenkins allows remote attackers to inject arb
    24Monitor
  • CVE-2023-43499Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 2.4.1 and earlier does not escape Failure Cause names in build logs, resulting in a stored cross-site
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Maven:com.sonyericsson.jenkins.plugins.bfa:build-failure-analyzer1.24.2Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
low · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
Low

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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