🛡️ CVE-2023-24440 — jira-pipeline-steps

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-319 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin

Jenkins JIRA Pipeline Steps Plugin 2.0.165.v8846cf59f3db and earlier transmits the private key in plain text as part of the global Jenkins configuration form, potentially resulting in their exposure.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-24440 is classified as CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. Sensitive data crosses the network without encryption and can be read or altered in transit.

Affected software

CVE-2023-24440 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • jira-pipeline-steps (fixed in 2.0.165.v8846cf59f3db)
  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:jira-steps

Timeline and source

Published on 26 January 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.jenkins.io
www.jenkins.io

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-319
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-26
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
jira-pipeline-steps — 2.0.165.v8846cf59f3db
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:jira-steps — —

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