CVE-2025-53664
Published: 09 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-53664 is a medium-severity Plaintext Storage of a Password (CWE-256) vulnerability in Jenkins Apica Loadtest. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20850
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Apica Loadtest Plugin 1.10 and earlier stores Apica Loadtest LTP authentication tokens unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller, where they can be viewed by users with Item/Extended Read permission or access to the Jenkins controller file…
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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.