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TI-2023-05654 Aliases CVE-2023-6149GHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Priority LOW 29CWE-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 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

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00457 39th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed com.qualys.plugins:qualys-was (Maven): 2.0.12

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
QualysWeb App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin2.0.11 – 2.0.3—No fix listedCNA
—com.qualys.plugins:qualys-was (Maven)before 2.0.122.0.12Patch availableGHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h
  • Web App Scanning Connector Jenkins Plugin VendorQualys Affected 2.0.11 – 2.0.3 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • com.qualys.plugins:qualys-was (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 2.0.12 Fixed in 2.0.12 Patch available GHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:qualys:web_application_screening:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*up to 2.0.11VulnerableQualys
  • cpe:2.3:a:qualys:web_application_screening:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:* Versions up to 2.0.11 Vulnerable ·Qualys

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h com.qualys.plugins:qualys-was (Maven) Fixed in 2.0.12 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-6149
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h

References

Advisory 2

Other 4

Sources

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