Vulnerability · Published Jan 9, 2024 · Assigned by Qualys
CVE-2023-6148Possible XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance
Medium 5.7
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting 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 40% 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 and access to configure or edit jobs to utilize the plugin to configure a potential rouge endpoint via which it was possible to control response for certain request which could be injected with XSS payloads leading to XSS while processing the response data
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | com.qualys.plugins:qualys-pc | 1.0.6 | GHSA-rwf9-8fqr-p44m |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qualys,Inc. | Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin | 1.0.5 – through 1.0.2 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N