Vulnerabilites related to Qualys,Inc. - Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin
CVE-2023-6149 (GCVE-0-2023-6149)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-09 08:21
Modified
2025-06-16 19:55
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
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
Impacted products
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