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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",
  "modified": "2024-01-09T19:26:01Z",
  "published": "2024-01-09T09:30:29Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories"
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS XML External Entity vulnerability"
}

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

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

Title

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Summary

Severity

5.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-06-16 19:54 UTC

CWE

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Assigner

Qualys mitre root

References

1 reference

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

Impacted products

1 product

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

Date Public

2024-01-09 08:19

Credits

Yaroslav Afenkin, CloudBees, Inc.

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