Jenkins Apica Loadtest Plugin vulnerability exposes authentication tokens

published 2025-07-09 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-q8p4-vw42-66gh , EUVD-2025-20850

cvss: 6.5; 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 30%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins Apica Loadtest Plugin 1.10 and earlier stores Apica Loadtest LTP authentication tokens 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.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 16 mo ago (2025-07-09)

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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	com.apica:ApicaLoadtest	<=1.10	no fix listed

Affected products

Jenkins Project Jenkins Apica Loadtest Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-256 Plaintext Storage of a Password
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

jenkins.io /security/advisory/2025-07-09/#SECURITY-3540
vendor-advisory, web
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2025/07/09/4
web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53664
advisory
github.com /jenkinsci/apica-loadtest-plugin
package

Sources

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Summary