Missing permission check in Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer Plugin

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2019-16554 · GHSA-x9gc-p2qp-4p7v · Published 17/12/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-16554 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting com.sonyericsson.jenkins.plugins.bfa:build-failure-analyzer, build failure analyzer (jenkins).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.82%, higher than 57.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.24.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
com.sonyericsson.jenkins.plugins.bfa:build-failure-analyzer Maven	`< 1.24.2`	`1.24.2`
build failure analyzer jenkins	`≤ 1.24.1`	No fix yet

Description

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.

NVD description

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16554 · ADVISORY
jenkinsci/build-failure-analyzer-plugin commit f316c88 · WEB
jenkins.io/security/advisory/2019-12-17 · WEB
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/17/1 · WEB

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

com.sonyericsson.jenkins.plugins.bfa:build-failure-analyzer

Maven

< 1.24.2

1.24.2

build failure analyzer

jenkins

≤ 1.24.1

No fix yet

Description

NVD description

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