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medium 5.5

CVE-2021-21612 json

Credentials stored in plain text by Jenkins TraceTronic ECU-TEST Plugin

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qvjr-x8fw-hghv , EUVD-2022-5036

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, 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

Summary

Jenkins TraceTronic ECU-TEST Plugin 2.23.1 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file on the Jenkins controller where they can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system.

Patch / fix

  • maven de.tracetronic.jenkins.plugins:ecutest 2.24
  • jenkins Alpine 3.12 2.275-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-21612

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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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 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven de.tracetronic.jenkins.plugins:ecutest
<2.24
2.24

Affected products

  • Jenkins project Jenkins TraceTronic ECU-TEST Plugin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

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