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Passwords stored in plain text by Jenkins dbCharts Plugin

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 16, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 27, 2023

Package

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:dbCharts (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 0.5.2

Patched versions

None

Description

Jenkins dbCharts Plugin 0.5.2 and earlier stores JDBC connection passwords unencrypted in its global configuration file hudson.plugins.dbcharts.DbChartPublisher.xml on the Jenkins controller as part of its configuration.

These passwords can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 15, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 16, 2022
Reviewed Nov 30, 2022
Last updated Oct 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-27216

GHSA ID

GHSA-x75r-g63m-82wj

Source code

Credits

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