Serena Sra DeployApplication · Jenkins
CVE-2019-10296
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 Serena SRA Deploy Plugin stores credentials unencrypted in its global 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 Serena SRA Deploy Plugin stores credentials in plaintext within its global configuration file on the Jenkins master node. Any user with file system access to the Jenkins master can read these unencrypted credentials, potentially leading to unauthorized access to external systems integrated through the plugin.
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
Serena Sra DeployApplication
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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Check if Serena SRA Deploy plugin is installedList the contents of the Jenkins plugins directory (typically $JENKINS_HOME/plugins/) and look for a directory or file containing 'sera', 'sradeploy', or 'serena' in its name.Affected if The plugin directory exists in the Jenkins plugins folder.
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Locate the plugin global configuration fileNavigate to the Jenkins home directory and search for config.xml files within the plugin's folder structure. The configuration is typically stored at $JENKINS_HOME/org.jenkinsci.plugins.sera.sradeploy/config.xml or similar path under the Jenkins home directory.Affected if A config.xml file exists within the plugin's configuration directory.
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Inspect configuration for plaintext credentialsOpen the plugin's config.xml file using a text editor or command (cat, type) and examine its contents. Look for XML elements containing username, password, token, secret, or credential-related fields with visible plaintext values.Affected if The configuration file contains unencrypted credential values (plaintext passwords, API tokens, or secrets).
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Verify credential storage methodExamine the XML structure around any credential fields. Determine if they are stored as plaintext values within tags like <password>, <secret>, <credentials>, or as attributes, versus being stored as encrypted references or IDs.Affected if Credentials appear as direct plaintext values rather than hashed, encrypted, or referenced IDs.
If the Serena SRA Deploy plugin is installed and its config.xml file contains unencrypted plaintext credentials, the environment is affected by this vulnerability.
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 plugin that implements encrypted credential storage, or remove the plugin if no update is available. Rotate any credentials that may have been exposed.
Fix this in Serena Sra Deploy
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation3.0 h
- Implementation12.0 h
- Testing6.0 h
- Review / QA3.0 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-2019-10296 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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