I want to use the Jenkins Remote API, and I am looking for safe solution. I came across Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery exploits
and I want to use it, but I read somewhere that you have to make a crumb request.
How do I get a crumb request in order to get the API working?
I found this https://github.com/entagen/jenkins-build-per-branch/pull/20
, but still I don't know how to fix it.
My Jenkins version is 1.50.x.
Authenticated remote API request responds with 403 when using POST request
I haven't found this in the documentation either. This code is tested against an older Jenkins (1.466), but should still work.
To issue the crumb use the crumbIssuer
// left out: you need to authenticate with user & password -> sample below
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(jenkinsUrl + "crumbIssuer/api/json");
String crumbResponse = toString(httpclient, httpGet);
CrumbJson crumbJson = new Gson().fromJson(crumbResponse, CrumbJson.class);
This will get you a response like this
{"crumb":"fb171d526b9cc9e25afe80b356e12cb7","crumbRequestField":".crumb"}
This contains two pieces of information you need
- the field name with which you need to pass the crumb
- the crumb itself
If you now want to fetch something from Jenkins, add the crumb as header. In the sample below I fetch the latest build results.
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(jenkinsUrl + "rssLatest");
httpost.addHeader(crumbJson.crumbRequestField, crumbJson.crumb);
Here is the sample code as a whole. I am using gson 2.2.4 to parse the response and Apache's httpclient 4.2.3 for the rest.
import org.apache.http.auth.*;
import org.apache.http.client.*;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.*;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
public class JenkinsMonitor {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String protocol = "http";
String host = "your-jenkins-host.com";
int port = 8080;
String usernName = "username";
String password = "passwort";
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
new AuthScope(host, port),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(usernName, password));
String jenkinsUrl = protocol + "://" + host + ":" + port + "/jenkins/";
try {
// get the crumb from Jenkins
// do this only once per HTTP session
// keep the crumb for every coming request
System.out.println("... issue crumb");
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(jenkinsUrl + "crumbIssuer/api/json");
String crumbResponse= toString(httpclient, httpGet);
CrumbJson crumbJson = new Gson()
.fromJson(crumbResponse, CrumbJson.class);
// add the issued crumb to each request header
// the header field name is also contained in the json response
System.out.println("... issue rss of latest builds");
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(jenkinsUrl + "rssLatest");
httpost.addHeader(crumbJson.crumbRequestField, crumbJson.crumb);
toString(httpclient, httpost);
} finally {
httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
}
// helper construct to deserialize crumb json into
public static class CrumbJson {
public String crumb;
public String crumbRequestField;
}
private static String toString(DefaultHttpClient client,
HttpRequestBase request) throws Exception {
ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String responseBody = client.execute(request, responseHandler);
System.out.println(responseBody + "\n");
return responseBody;
}
}
User cheffe's answer helped 90%. Thanks for giving us the right direction.
The missing 10% revolved around HTTP username and password authentication.
Since the Codenameone Java API I was using did not have the Authentication Class,
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(usernName, password));
I used:
String apiKey = "yourJenkinsUsername:yourJenkinsPassword";
httpConnection.addRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Base64.encode(apiKey.getBytes()));
Or you can use Python and requests
instead
req = requests.get('http://JENKINS_URL/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=concat(//crumbRequestField,":",//crumb)', auth=(username, password))
print(req.text)
will give you the name and the crumb:
Jenkins-Crumb:e2e41f670dc128f378b2a010b4fcb493
User cheffe's Java snippet worked great for me on Jenkins v2.89.3 (Eclipse.org) and another Jenkins instance I use, at v2.60.3 (once enabled1).
I've added this to a Maven mojo2 I use for pushing locally-edited config.xml
changes back to the server.
1 CSRF Protection
2 Hudson job sync plugin
This Python function gets the crumb, and additionally uses the crumb to post to a Jenkins endpoint. This is tested with Jenkins 2.46.3 with CSRF protection turned on:
import urllib.parse
import requests
def build_jenkins_job(url, username, password):
"""Post to the specified Jenkins URL.
`username` is a valid user, and `password` is the user's password or
(preferably) hex API token.
"""
# Build the Jenkins crumb issuer URL
parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
crumb_issuer_url = urllib.parse.urlunparse((parsed_url.scheme,
parsed_url.netloc,
'crumbIssuer/api/json',
'', '', ''))
# Get the Jenkins crumb
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)
r = requests.get(crumb_issuer_url, auth=auth)
json = r.json()
crumb = {json['crumbRequestField']: json['crumb']}
# POST to the specified URL
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
headers.update(crumb)
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, auth=auth)
username = 'jenkins'
password = '3905697dd052ad99661d9e9f01d4c045'
url = 'http://jenkins.example.com/job/sample/build'
build_jenkins_job(url, username, password)