A Critical Jenkins Bug Discovered - This is why Building a Web Server is Hard

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:07:24 GMT

<p>Jenkins has just released a statement that there is a potential bug (CVE-2019-17638) where an attacker can steal content from other legitimate requests. In this video, I describe the bug and why being a web server is difficult. &nbsp;2;00 HTTP Smuggling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFllH0QccCs 7;50 multi-Threading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vFgKr5bjWI&amp;t=1s &nbsp;&nbsp;Resources https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17638 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty_(web_server) https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-08-17/</p>