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CVE-2023-6149

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-6149 affects the Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS, versions 2.0.11 and earlier, due to a missing permission check during connectivity tests. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows authenticated users to configure a malicious endpoint, potentially leading to XML External Entity (XXE) injection and impact to integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qualys:web_application_screening:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.qualys.plugins:qualys-wasFixed in: 2.0.12
pfsensepatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
gcpvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch
m2teamvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
nessusvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch
netgearvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch

Vendor Advisories (7)

netgearllm-netgear-516b1cab3f0c8ddf

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Jan 10, 2024
pfsensellm-pfsense-52a7cad6ab3c3114

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Jan 10, 2024
mozillallm-mozilla-27721747c25dbfb1

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Jan 10, 2024
nessusllm-nessus-a4e0e9088471935e

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Jan 10, 2024
m2teamllm-m2team-fce10eaa87d9d5d0

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Jan 10, 2024
gcpllm-gcp-1168333d77acd25f

Possible XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Plugin for Qualys Web Application Security

Jan 10, 2024
mavenGHSA-5gwh-r76w-934hmedium

Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS XML External Entity vulnerability

Jan 9, 2024

References

qualys.com / security-advisories
Vendor Advisory