CVE-2019-16555: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

December 17, 2019 (updated January 3, 2020)

A user-supplied regular expression in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin 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.

References

jenkins.io/security/advisory/2019-12-17/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16555

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