Violation Comments to GitLab Plugin has Insufficiently Protected Credentials

published 2019-09-25 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3p8r-p4q5-mc44 , EUVD-2022-2223

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins Violation Comments to GitLab Plugin 2.28 and earlier stored credentials unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins master where they could be viewed by users with Extended Read permission, or access to the master file system.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:violation-comments-to-gitlab 2.29

github.com/jenkinsci/violation-comments-to-gitlab-plugin@e8237a8 commit

Exploit prediction

1.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jenkins-ci.plugins:violation-comments-to-gitlab	<2.29	2.29

Affected products

Jenkins project Jenkins Violation Comments to GitLab Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

github.com /jenkinsci/violation-comments-to-gitlab-plugin/commit/e8237a803012bae7773d8bd10fe02e21892be3fe
web
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2019-09-25/#SECURITY-1577
web, vendor-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2019/09/25/3
mailing-list, web, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10416
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary