CVE-2023-6148: Qualys Policy Compliance

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 and access to configure or edit jobs to utilize the plugin to configure a potential rouge endpoint via which it was possible to control response for certain request which could be injected with XSS payloads leading to XSS while processing the response data

Affected products

• Qualys Policy Compliance: up to and including 1.0.5

Published 2024-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.