Role-based Authorization Strategy Plugin was not requiring requests to its API be sent via POST, thereby opening itself to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. This allowed attackers to add administrator role to any user, or to remove the authorization configuration, preventing legitimate access to Jenkins.
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:role-based_authorization_strategy:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*",
"source": "CPE_RANGE",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "2.5.0"
}
]
}