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GHSA-5GWH-R76W-934H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-09 09:30 – Updated: 2024-01-09 19:26

Summary

Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS XML External Entity vulnerability

Details

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

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  "id": "GHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h",
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CVE-2023-6149 (GCVE-0-2023-6149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-09 08:21 – Updated: 2025-06-16 19:55

Summary

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

Assigner

Qualys

References

URL

Tags

https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Qualys,Inc.	Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin	Affected: 2.0.11 , ≤ 2.0.3 (custom)

Credits

Yaroslav Afenkin, CloudBees, Inc.

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-5GWH-R76W-934H

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

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