Medium

Jenkins Anchore Container Scanner Plugin vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials

  • Disclosed: 24.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:21

Jenkins Anchore Container Image Scanner Plugin 1.0.19 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins master where they can be viewed by users with Extended Read permission, or access to the master file system.

The credential being stored was a service password for the Anchore.io service. As the affected functionality has been deprecated, and the affected Anchore.io service has been shut down in late 2018, the affected feature has been removed.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.jenkins-ci.plugins:anchore-container-scanner < 1.0.20 1.0.20

References

CVSS score 6.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-522
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:anchore-container-scanner
Disclosed
24.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 11:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-jg29-c2qj-wpm3 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.jenkins-ci.plugins:anchore-container-scanner

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
3
First → latest
05.2022 09.2022
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2022: 3
  2. 2023: 0
  3. 2024: 0
  4. 2025: 0
  5. 2026: 0
  1. Jenkins Anchore Container Scanner Plugin vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials this entry
    Medium · 6.5 CVE-2019-16542 < 1.0.20 1.0.20

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