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CVE-2023-6149: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

January 9, 2024

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

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-5gwh-r76w-934h
  • github.com/jenkinsci/qualys-was-plugin/commit/b4eeb34747fa1b934abbdf686102f6495fdb02ee
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6149
  • www.qualys.com/security-advisories/

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Affected versions

All versions up to 2.0.11

Fixed versions

  • 2.0.12

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.12 or above.

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-was/CVE-2023-6149.yml

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