CVE-2023-6148 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-6148

Possible XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance

Vulnerability 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

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Yaroslav Afenkin, CloudBees, Inc.

Affected Vendor

Qualys,Inc.

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Affected Software

Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.5

Timeline

Official Publish: January 9th, 2024
Last Modified: April 17th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)