CVE-2022-43401: Critical severity Jenkins Script Security Jenkins vulnerability

A sandbox bypass vulnerability was found in several Jenkins plugins. This could allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code within the Jenkins JVM controller. Exploitation could be achieved by crafting untrusted libraries or pipelines, compromising the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of Jenkins.

Script Security Plugin provides a sandbox feature that allows low privileged users to define scripts, including Pipelines, that are generally safe to execute. Calls to code defined inside a sandboxed script are intercepted, and various allowlists are checked to determine whether the call is to be allowed.

Multiple sandbox bypass vulnerabilities exist in Script Security Plugin and Pipeline: Groovy Plugin:

- In Script Security Plugin 1183.v774b0b0aa451 and earlier and in Pipeline: Groovy Plugin 2802.v5ea628154bc2 and earlier, various casts performed implicitly by the Groovy language runtime were not intercepted by the sandbox. This includes casts performed when returning values from methods, when assigning local variables, fields, properties, and when defining default arguments for closure, constructor, and method parameters (CVE-2022-43401 in Script Security Plugin and CVE-2022-43402 in Pipeline: Groovy Plugin). - In Script Security Plugin 1183.v774b0b0aa451 and earlier, when casting an array-like value to an array type, per-element casts to the component type of the array are not intercepted by the sandbox (CVE-2022-43403). - In Script Security Plugin 1183.v774b0b0aa451 and earlier, crafted constructor bodies and calls to sandbox-generated synthetic constructors can be used to construct any subclassable type (due to an incomplete fix for SECURITY-1754 in the 2020-03-09 security advisory) (CVE-2022-43404).

These vulnerabilities allow attackers with permission to define and run sandboxed scripts, including Pipelines, to bypass the sandbox protection and execute arbitrary code in the context of the Jenkins controller JVM.\n\nThese vulnerabilities have been fixed:

- Script Security Plugin 1184.v85d16bd851b3 and Pipeline: Groovy Plugin 2803.v1af77ffcc773 intercept Groovy casts performed implicitly by the Groovy language runtime (CVE-2022-43401 in Script Security Plugin and CVE-2022-43402 in Pipeline: Groovy Plugin). - Script Security Plugin 1184.v85d16bd851b3 intercepts per-element casts when casting array-like values to array types (CVE-2022-43403). - Script Security Plugin 1184.v85d16bd851b3 rejects improper calls to sandbox-generated synthetic constructors (CVE-2022-43404).

Both plugins, Script Security Plugin and Pipeline: Groovy Plugin must be updated simultaneously. While Script Security Plugin could be updated independently, doing so would cause errors in Pipeline: Groovy Plugin due to an incompatible API change.