CVE-2023-50770Jenkins OpenId Connect Authentication Plugin 2.6 and earlier stores a password of a local user account used as an anti-lockout feature in…
- 6.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Jenkins OpenId Connect Authentication Plugin 2.6 and earlier stores a password of a local user account used as an anti-lockout feature in a recoverable format, allowing attackers with access to the Jenkins controller file system to recover the plain text password of that account, likely gaining administrator access to Jenkins.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jenkins
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.
Affected products
Jenkins Project · Jenkins OpenId Connect Authentication Plugin
- affected ≤ 2.6
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jenkins-ci.plugins:oic-authGHSA-6r5w-jjr5-qvgr (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- Jenkins Security Advisory 2023-12-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/13/4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-3130 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6r5w-jjr5-qvgr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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