CVE-2017-1000245: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

November 1, 2017 (updated October 3, 2019)

The SSH Plugin stores credentials which allow jobs to access remote servers via the SSH protocol. User passwords and passphrases for encrypted SSH keys are stored in plaintext in a configuration file.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000245

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