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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2023-35142 json

SSL/TLS certificate validation disabled by default in Jenkins Checkmarx Plugin

published 2023-06-14 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rr3p-5fcf-v5m3 , EUVD-2023-1880

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins Checkmarx Plugin 2022.4.3 and earlier disables SSL/TLS validation for connections to the Checkmarx server by default.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.checkmarx.jenkins:checkmarx 2023.2.6

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-35142 updated cvss 8.1

jenkins-2-plugins: checkmarx: SSL/TLS certificate validation disabled by default in Checkmarx Plugin

  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins-2-plugins jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins, jenkins-2-plugins jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins-2-plugins, jenkins-2-plugins jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Cryostat 2 jenkins-2-plugins jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator jenkins-2-plugins jenkins-2-plugins
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
22 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.checkmarx.jenkins:checkmarx
<2023.2.6
2023.2.6

Affected products

  • Jenkins Project Jenkins Checkmarx Plugin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

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.