Qualys Jenkins Plugin for Policy Compliance prior to version and including 1.0.5 was identified to be affected by a security flaw, which was missing a permission check while performing a connectivity check to Qualys Cloud Services. This allowed any user with login access to configure or edit jobs to utilize the plugin and configure potential a rouge endpoint via which it was possible to control response for certain request which could be injected with XXE payloads leading to XXE while processing the response data
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-611"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-01-09T08:15:36Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-01-09T18:50:03Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
}