Plaintext Storage of a Password in Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin

published 2023-01-24 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-g29v-5pwh-wxx4 , EUVD-2023-0464

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin 2.0.165.v8846cf59f3db and earlier stores the private keys 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.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 19 mo ago (2025-04-02)

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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:jira-steps	<=2.0.165.v8846cf59f3db	no fix listed

Affected products

Jenkins Project Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE-256 Plaintext Storage of a Password

References

jenkins.io /security/advisory/2023-01-24/#SECURITY-2774
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24439
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