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CVE-2023-6147: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

January 9, 2024

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

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6147
  • plugins.jenkins.io/qualys-pc/
  • www.qualys.com/security-advisories/

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Affected versions

All versions up to 1.0.5

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 5.7 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Source file

maven/com.qualys.plugins/qualys-pc/CVE-2023-6147.yml

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