🛡️ CVE-2025-53663 — ibm-cloud-devops

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-311 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Jenkins IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin vulnerability exposes SonarQube authentication tokens

Jenkins IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin 2.0.16 and earlier stores SonarQube authentication tokens unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller as part of its configuration.

These tokens can be viewed by users with Item/Extended Read permission or access to the Jenkins controller file system.

As of publication of this advisory, there is no fix.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, 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-2025-53663 is classified as CWE-311: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. Sensitive data is stored or transmitted in the clear, so anyone able to observe it can read it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53663 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • com.ibm.devops:ibm-cloud-devops
  • ibm-cloud-devops (fixed in 2.0.16)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2025 and last revised on 5 November 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
www.jenkins.io (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-311
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-11-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.ibm.devops:ibm-cloud-devops — —
ibm-cloud-devops — 2.0.16

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