Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS XML External Entity vulnerability
Date: 2024-01
Affected: maven/com.qualys.plugins:qualys-was
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2023-6147
CVE-2023-6149
CWE: CWE-611
CVSS: 5.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

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


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