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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-21681 json

Password stored in plain text by Jenkins Nomad Plugin

published 2021-08-31 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-5c2c-cvg6-ghjm , EUVD-2022-2554

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins Nomad Plugin 0.7.4 and earlier stores Docker passwords unencrypted in the global config.xml file on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:nomad 0.7.5

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:nomad
<0.7.5
0.7.5

Affected products

  • Jenkins project Jenkins Nomad Plugin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
  • CWE-256 Plaintext Storage of a Password

References

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.