Vulnerability · Published Jan 9, 2024 · Assigned by Qualys
CVE-2023-6147Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance
Medium 5.7
In plain English
A medium-severity XML external entity in Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin from Qualys,Inc.. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 46% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official 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
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | com.qualys.plugins:qualys-pc | 1.0.6 | GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qualys,Inc. | Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin | 1.0.5 – through 1.0.2 |
Weakness: CWE-611 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N