Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-28684

Medium

Published: 02 April 2023

Published
02 April 2023
Modified
20 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0212 84.5th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-28684 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (CWE-611) vulnerability in Jenkins Remote-Jobs-View. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Jenkins remote-jobs-view-plugin Plugin 0.0.3 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

jenkins
remote-jobs-view
≤ 0.0.3

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.

addresses: CWE-611

Penetration testing includes XML external entity payloads, detecting XXE vulnerabilities and enabling their mitigation.

addresses: CWE-611

Identifies XML external entity processing via monitoring of unusual file/network access or resource usage.

References