CVE-2023-6149 (GCVE-0-2023-6149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-09 08:21 – Updated: 2025-06-16 19:55
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Summary
Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS prior to version and including 2.0.11 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
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Qualys,Inc. Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin Affected: 2.0.11 , ≤ 2.0.3 (custom)
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Credits
Yaroslav Afenkin, CloudBees, Inc.
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