CVE-2016-0791

CVE-2016-0791 describes a critical vulnerability in Jenkins versions prior to 1.650 and LTS before 1.642.2, affecting Jenkins, OpenShift, and Red Hat Jenkins/OpenShift. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protection by brute-forcing tokens due to the absence of a constant-time verification algorithm. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability poses a significant risk, enabling high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.