Cleartext storage of sensitive information in White Source - CVE-2020-2213
Published: July 3, 2020 / Updated: October 12, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU29523
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-2213
CWE-ID: CWE-312
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to view the password on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software stores credentials in plain text as part of its global configuration file "org.whitesource.jenkins.pipeline.WhiteSourcePipelineStep.xml" and job "config.xml" files on the Jenkins master. A remote user with Extended Read permission (in the case of job config.xml files) or access to the master file system can obtain credentials.
Affected software
White Source
How to mitigate CVE-2020-2213
Install update from vendor's website.
White Source - update to release-tag-20.8.1