CVE-2023-6149 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-6149

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Vulnerability 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

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

Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin
Vulnerable Versions:
2.0.11

Timeline

Official Publish: January 9th, 2024
Last Modified: June 16th, 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)