Assembla AuthApplication · Jenkins
CVE-2019-10280
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedJenkins Assembla Auth Plugin stores credentials unencrypted in the global config.xml configuration file on the Jenkins master where they can be viewed by users with access to the master file system.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Jenkins Assembla Auth Plugin stores user credentials in plaintext within the global config.xml configuration file on the Jenkins master. Any user with read access to the Jenkins master filesystem can directly view these unencrypted credentials, leading to unauthorized access to external Assembla services.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Assembla AuthApplication
all versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Assembla Auth plugin is installedNavigate to Jenkins > Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Installed tab and search for 'Assembla Auth' or check $JENKINS_HOME/plugins for the assembla-auth plugin directoryAffected if The Assembla Auth plugin is present on the Jenkins instance
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Locate the Jenkins global configuration fileAccess the Jenkins master filesystem and locate the config.xml file, typically found at $JENKINS_HOME/config.xmlAffected if The config.xml file exists and is readable by the Jenkins process or other system users
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Search for plaintext Assembla credentials in config.xmlOpen config.xml and search for 'assembla' or credential-related XML elements. Look for unencrypted username and password fields within Assembla authentication configuration sectionsAffected if Plaintext username and password values appear in Assembla-related XML elements without encryption wrappers
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Verify filesystem permissions on config.xmlRun 'ls -la $JENkins_HOME/config.xml' to check file permissions and identify which system users have read access to the configuration fileAffected if The config.xml file is readable by users other than the Jenkins service account, allowing unauthorized credential exposure
The environment is affected if the Assembla Auth plugin is installed and plaintext credentials are present in the Jenkins config.xml file accessible to non-admin users.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade to a patched version of the Assembla Auth Plugin that implements proper credential encryption, or disable the plugin and rotate all potentially exposed credentials immediately.
Fix this in Assembla Auth
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation2.0 h
- Testing1.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2019-10280 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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