What is CVE-2023-6148?

CVE-2023-6148 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualys Policy Compliance, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2024-01-09.

How severe is CVE-2023-6148?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-6148 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Qualys Policy Compliance

CVE-2023-6148

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

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (37.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Qualys Policy_compliance
Qualys,inc. Policy Compliance Connector Jenkins Plugin — versions 1.0.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

bugreport@qualys.com (Vendor Advisory)
bugreport@qualys.com

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-6148?: CVE-2023-6148 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualys Policy Compliance, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2024-01-09.
How severe is CVE-2023-6148?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-6148 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.