Jenkins admin? Get buzzy patching, says Cloudbees

Cloudbees's Jenkins needs a patch against a Java deserialisation vulnerability. The bug, CVE-2017-1000353, exists in how Jenkins implements HTTP upload/download requests. The bug lets an attacker exploit a serialised object in the preamble of commands sent to the CLI. As described by Securiteam, “since Jenkins does not …

[Anonymous Coward]

Java deserialisation vulnerability

I have to ask, but when whoever invented deserialisation, did he give no thought as to the security implications of being able to alter or swap out the object/file in transit. What the frag are they teaching them in computer security.

[Shark? what shark?]

Re: Java deserialisation vulnerability

Serialization is just a tool to turn an object into a binary blob, and vice versa. If you don't trust the provenance of the blob, the de-serialized object needs validation before use.