Medium
Security advisory
Jenkins Rundeck Plugin 3.6.5 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file and 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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16556
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Jenkins Rundeck Plugin 3.6.5 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file and 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.
osv:CVE-2019-16556
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16556",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2019-16556",
"summary": "Jenkins Rundeck Plugin 3.6.5 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file and 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.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-16556",
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"CVE-2019-16556",
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"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
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"affected": [
{
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"type": "GIT",
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},
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{
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}
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"versions": [
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"rundeck-3.6.0",
"rundeck-3.5.4",
"rundeck-3.5.3",
"rundeck-3.5.2",
"rundeck-3.5.1",
"rundeck-3.5",
"rundeck-3.4",
"rundeck-3.3",
"rundeck-3.2",
"rundeck-3.1",
"rundeck-3.0",
"rundeck-2.11",
"rundeck-2.10",
"rundeck-2.9",
"rundeck-2.8",
"rundeck-2.7",
"rundeck-2.6",
"rundeck-2.5",
"rundeck-2.4",
"rundeck-2.3.1",
"rundeck-2.3",
"rundeck-2.2",
"rundeck-2.1",
"rundeck-2.0.1",
"rundeck-2.0",
"rundeck-1.8",
"rundeck-1.7",
"rundeck-1.6",
"rundeck-1.5",
"rundeck-1.4",
"rundeck-1.3",
"rundeck-1.2",
"rundeck-1.1",
"rundeck-1.0"
],
"database_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:32.428618388Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2019-12-17/#SECURITY-1636"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2019-16556",
"evidence": "/id"
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 433030,
"published_at": "2019-12-17T15:15:16.987+00:00"
}