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CVE-2023-6147: Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

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 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

Affected products

• Qualys,Inc. Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin: through 1.0.5

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/6
• https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/6
• https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/

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