CVE-2023-6147
Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Qualys
Description
Qualys Jenkins Plugin for Policy Compliance prior to version and including 1.0.5 was identified to be affected by a security flaw, which was missing a permission check while performing a connectivity check to Qualys Cloud Services. This allowed any user with login access to configure or edit jobs to utilize the plugin and configure potential a rouge endpoint via which it was possible to control response for certain request which could be injected with XXE payloads leading to XXE while processing the response data
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| QualysCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Qualys,Inc. · Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin
- affected 1.0.5 – ≤ 1.0.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencom.qualys.plugins:qualys-pcGHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Customers should upgrade to a minimum version of 1.0.6.
References (2)
- https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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