CVE-2025-53663: Jenkins IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin vulnerability exposes SonarQube authentication tokens

July 9, 2025

Jenkins IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin 2.0.16 and earlier stores SonarQube authentication tokens unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller as part of its configuration.

These tokens can be viewed by users with Item/Extended Read permission or access to the Jenkins controller file system.

As of publication of this advisory, there is no fix.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-pgrx-5f8q-r5mq
github.com/jenkinsci/ibm-cloud-devops-plugin
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53663
www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2025-07-09/

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