What is CVE-2025-53663?

CVE-2025-53663 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jenkins Ibm Cloud Devops, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2025-53663?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Jenkins Ibm Cloud Devops

CVE-2025-53663

Jenkins IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin 2.0.16 and earlier stores SonarQube authentication tokens 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.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Jenkins Ibm_cloud_devops
Jenkins Project Ibm Cloud Devops Plugin — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-311 — Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

References

jenkinsci-cert@googlegroups.com (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-53663?: CVE-2025-53663 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jenkins Ibm Cloud Devops, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2025-53663?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.