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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-24440 json

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin

published 2023-01-24 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3g2g-rcm6-rrq2 , EUVD-2023-0319

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 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin 2.0.165.v8846cf59f3db and earlier transmits the private key in plain text as part of the global Jenkins configuration form, potentially resulting in their exposure.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% 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-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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.