Jenkins Ansible Plugin stores and displays secrets in plain text

published 2023-05-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-38hw-368m-7jmg , EUVD-2023-1458

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins Ansible Plugin 204.v8191fd551eb_f and earlier stores extra variables unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with Item/Extended Read permission or access to the Jenkins controller file system.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:ansible 205.v4cb

github.com/jenkinsci/ansible-plugin@4cbc486 commit

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 21 mo ago (2025-01-23)

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/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:ansible	<205.v4cb	205.v4cb

Affected products

Jenkins Project Jenkins Ansible Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

References

github.com /jenkinsci/ansible-plugin/commit/4cbc48657c21a65a917b3b3049918480198c0cfb
web
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2023-05-16/#SECURITY-3017
vendor-advisory, web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32982
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