CVE-2023-6148 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-6148: Possible XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance

Vendor Qualys,Inc.
Product Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published January 9, 2024
Last update April 17, 2025

CVSS base score

5.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 9, 2024 CVE published
April 17, 2025 Record updated