Jenkins AWS CodePipeline Plugin has Insufficiently Protected Credentials

published 2018-07-09 8y ago modified 2026-09-10 last mo. also GHSA-5gwq-4275-q4qc , EUVD-2022-2586

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins project Jenkins AWS CodePipeline Plugin version 0.36 and earlier contains a Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in AWSCodePipelineSCM.java that can result in Credentials Disclosure. This attack appear to be exploitable via local file access. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.37 and later.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven com.amazonaws:aws-codepipeline 0.37

github.com/jenkinsci/aws-codepipeline-plugin@a45d3dc commit

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Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	2.1	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	com.amazonaws:aws-codepipeline	<0.37	0.37

Classification

Weakness

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

github.com /jenkinsci/aws-codepipeline-plugin/commit/a45d3dc52c8b6f49e813a2ee8b796f0302649c69
web
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2018-06-25/#SECURITY-967
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000401
advisory

Sources

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