CVE-2023-28670
Published: 02 April 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-28670 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline Aggregator View. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Jenkins Pipeline Aggregator View Plugin 1.13 and earlier contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-28670. The root cause is failure to escape a variable that holds the current view's URL when it is rendered inside inline JavaScript, producing a CWE-79 flaw with a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.4.
Authenticated attackers who possess Overall/Read permission can store a malicious payload that executes in the browsers of other users who view the affected page, resulting in limited confidentiality and integrity impact that also requires user interaction.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2023-03-21 at https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-03-21/#SECURITY-2885 addresses the issue for this plugin. The associated EPSS scores have remained low and essentially flat since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-1394
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Pipeline Aggregator View Plugin 1.13 and earlier does not escape a variable representing the current view's URL in inline JavaScript, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by authenticated attackers with Overall/Read permission.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.