cve/2023/CVE-2023-6149.md

### [CVE-2023-6149](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6149)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Web%20App%20Scanning%20Connector%20Jenkins%20Plugin&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-611%20Improper%20Restriction%20of%20XML%20External%20Entity%20Reference&color=brighgreen)

### Description

Qualys Jenkins Plugin for WAS prior to version and including 2.0.11 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

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds