CVE-2023-6149

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Jan 9, 2024
Updated: Jun 16, 2025
Reserved: Nov 15, 2023

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	Qualys

Weaknesses

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins PluginQualys,Inc.	2.0.11 through 2.0.3Affectedfrom 2.0.12Not affected

References

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

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