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TI-2023-05652 Aliases CVE-2023-6147GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance

Priority LOW 30CWE-611Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00547 46th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed com.qualys.plugins:qualys-pc (Maven): 1.0.6

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
QualysPolicy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin1.0.5 – 1.0.2—No fix listedCNA
—com.qualys.plugins:qualys-pc (Maven)before 1.0.61.0.6Patch availableGHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v
  • Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin VendorQualys Affected 1.0.5 – 1.0.2 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • com.qualys.plugins:qualys-pc (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 1.0.6 Fixed in 1.0.6 Patch available GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:qualys:policy_compliance:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*up to 1.0.5VulnerableQualys
  • cpe:2.3:a:qualys:policy_compliance:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:* Versions up to 1.0.5 Vulnerable ·Qualys

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v com.qualys.plugins:qualys-pc (Maven) Fixed in 1.0.6 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-6147
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8525-52vg-jv6v

References

Advisory 2

Other 5

  • TI-2023-05653 Possible XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Policy Compliance CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.7

Sources

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