CVE-2023-6149
Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS XML External Entity vulnerability
5.7
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.22%
Description
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
How to fix CVE-2023-6149
To remediate CVE-2023-6149, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.0.12 or later
Is CVE-2023-6149 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.0.12
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |