RCE vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline: AWS Steps Plugin
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Mar 25, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Reviewed
Dec 22, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
Pipeline: AWS Steps Plugin 1.40 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types. This results in a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability exploitable by users able to provide YAML input files to Pipeline: AWS Steps Plugin’s build steps.
Pipeline: AWS Steps Plugin 1.41 configures its YAML parser to only instantiate safe types.
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