Cleartext storage of sensitive information in IBM Cloud DevOps - CVE-2025-53663
Published: July 30, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU113436
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-53663
CWE-ID: CWE-312
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Jenkins
Affected software:
IBM Cloud DevOps
IBM Cloud DevOps
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected application stores SonarQube authentication tokens unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller as part of its configuration. A remote user can gain access to secret information.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-53663
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.