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Stored XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Checkmarx Plugin

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 12, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven com.checkmarx.jenkins:checkmarx (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 2022.3.3

Patched versions

2022.4.3

Description

heckmarx Plugin processes Checkmarx service API responses and generates HTML reports from them for rendering on the Jenkins UI.

Checkmarx Plugin 2022.3.3 and earlier does not escape values returned from the Checkmarx service API before inserting them into HTML reports. This results in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

While Jenkins users without Overall/Administer permission are not allowed to configure the URL to the Checkmarx service, this could still be exploited via man-in-the-middle attacks.

Checkmarx Plugin 2022.4.3 escapes values returned from the Checkmarx service API before inserting them into HTML reports.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 12, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 12, 2022
Reviewed Dec 16, 2022
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.054%
(24th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-46684

GHSA ID

GHSA-p86x-75j8-w4xh

Source code

Credits

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