CVE-2025-53663 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Jenkins IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin versions 2.0.16 and earlier. It allows SonarQube authentication tokens to be stored unencrypted in job config.xml files, making them accessible to users with Item/Extended Read permission or file system access to the Jenkins controller. The CVSS score is 6.5, indicating a low attack complexity and privilege requirement, with a high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:jenkins:ibm_cloud_devops:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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