CVE-2025-53655
Published: 09 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-53655 is a medium-severity Plaintext Storage of a Password (CWE-256) vulnerability in Jenkins Statistics Gatherer. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 27.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20859
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Statistics Gatherer Plugin 2.0.3 and earlier does not mask the AWS Secret Key on the global configuration form, increasing the potential for attackers to observe and capture it.
- 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.
Protection of passwords and credentials at rest forces encryption or equivalent controls instead of plaintext storage.