Android LintApplication · Jenkins
CVE-2020-2262
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedJenkins Android Lint Plugin 2.6 and earlier does not escape the annotation message in tooltips, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to provide report files to the plugin's post-build step.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Jenkins Android Lint Plugin versions 2.6 and earlier fails to sanitize annotation messages from lint report files before rendering them in HTML tooltips. This allows attackers who can supply malicious report files to the plugin's post-build step to inject persistent JavaScript code that executes in the browsers of users viewing build results.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Android LintApplication
<= 2.6CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the Android Lint Plugin versionNavigate to Jenkins > Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Installed tab and search for 'Android Lint', or use the Jenkins CLI: java -jar jenkins-cli.jar list-plugins | grep -i android-lintAffected if The plugin is installed and the version displayed is 2.6 or earlier
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Identify jobs using Android Lint post-build stepSearch job configurations for the 'Publish Android Lint results' post-build action. This can be done via Jenkins UI per job, or by searching config.xml files in $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/ for '<publisher>org.jenkinsci.plugins.android_lint.Publisher'Affected if Any job configuration includes the Android Lint publisher and processes lint report files
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Verify lint report file handlingReview job configurations that use the Android Lint publisher to confirm they accept report file paths from user-controllable sources (such as parameterized build paths or uploads)Affected if Users can supply or modify lint report file paths or contents that get processed by the plugin
A user is affected if the Android Lint Plugin version is 2.6 or earlier AND at least one job is configured to publish Android Lint results from report files that users can control.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade the Jenkins Android Lint Plugin to version 2.7 or later, which implements proper HTML escaping of annotation messages in tooltips. Until an upgrade is available, restrict who can upload or modify lint report files.
Fix this in Android Lint
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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