CVE-2023-6149 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-6149: Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Vendor Qualys,Inc.
Product Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin
Weakness CWE-611 · XXE
Published January 9, 2024
Last update June 16, 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 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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 9, 2024 CVE published
June 16, 2025 Record updated