Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-43426

Medium

Published: 19 October 2022

Published
19 October 2022
Modified
08 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0059 69.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-43426 is a medium-severity Plaintext Storage of a Password (CWE-256) vulnerability in Jenkins S3 Explorer. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 30.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Jenkins S3 Explorer Plugin 1.0.8 and earlier does not mask the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY form field, increasing the potential for attackers to observe and capture it.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-256

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

jenkins
s3 explorer
≤ 1.0.8

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest
addresses: CWE-256

Protection of passwords and credentials at rest forces encryption or equivalent controls instead of plaintext storage.

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