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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-34807 json

Plaintext Storage of a Password in Jenkins Elasticsearch Query Plugin

published 2022-06-30 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h5h5-m2mc-j2pv , EUVD-2022-6343

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins Elasticsearch Query Plugin 1.2 and earlier stores a password unencrypted in its global configuration file on the Jenkins controller where it can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.

Exploit prediction

0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% 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 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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:elasticsearch-query
<=1.2
no fix listed

Affected products

  • Jenkins project Jenkins Elasticsearch Query 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.