Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Jenkins AWS CodeBuild Plugin

published 2018-07-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mwg7-69hf-vqh3 , EUVD-2022-4637

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 CodeBuild Plugin version 0.26 and earlier contains a Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in AWSClientFactory.java, CodeBuilder.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 0.27 and later.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven com.amazonaws:aws-codebuild 0.27

github.com/jenkinsci/aws-codebuild-plugin@f5bae39 commit

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-codebuild	<0.27	0.27

Classification

Weakness

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

github.com /jenkinsci/aws-codebuild-plugin/commit/f5bae399c245ff6a7131ce9cca9636f5971d582c
web
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2018-06-25/#SECURITY-834
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000404
advisory

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary