jenkinsci/jenkins · Security
Jenkins does not encrypt secrets from POST config.xml submissions before storing them in job configurations
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-m6wv-wh8g-64xc
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-53442
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Description
Jenkins 2.567 and earlier, LTS 2.555.2 and earlier does not encrypt secrets from POST config.xml submissions before storing them in job configurations unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with Item/Extended Read permission, or access to the Jenkins controller file system.
CWEs
- CWE-311 · Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53442 ↗
- https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2026-06-10/#SECURITY-3744 ↗
- https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/037c2c30cd26b926ec9df3d1b60e16b80608edb4 ↗
- https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/206f0b565f0ce16b5162160ffb96f5dd59002ff7 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m6wv-wh8g-64xc ↗