Parasoft Environment ManagerApplication · Jenkins
CVE-2020-2132
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 Parasoft Environment Manager Plugin 2.14 and earlier stores a password unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins master where it can be viewed by users with Extended Read permission, or 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 Parasoft Environment Manager Plugin for Jenkins versions 2.14 and earlier stores passwords in plaintext (unencrypted) within job config.xml files on the Jenkins master. Users with Extended Read permission on jobs or filesystem access to the Jenkins master can view these exposed credentials in plain text.
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
Parasoft Environment ManagerApplication
<= 2.14CVSS 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
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 Parasoft Environment Manager plugin versionNavigate to Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Installed tab, or inspect the plugin metadata file (plugins/parasoft-environment-manager.jpi or .hpi) to find the installed versionAffected if The installed version is 2.14 or earlier
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Locate Jenkins job config.xml files containing Parasoft EM configurationSearch the Jenkins jobs directory (typically $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/*/config.xml) for files containing 'parasoft' or 'EnvironmentManager' XML elementsAffected if Any config.xml files contain Parasoft Environment Manager configuration sections
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Inspect for plaintext passwords in job configsOpen the identified config.xml files and search for password fields within Parasoft-related configuration elements - look for cleartext or base64-encoded (but unencrypted) credential stringsAffected if Password fields in Parasoft EM config sections contain readable plaintext values rather than encrypted references to Jenkins credentials store
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Check filesystem access to job configsIf you have filesystem access, list all config.xml files under $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/ and examine their content for Parasoft EM password elementsAffected if Plaintext passwords are readable directly from config.xml files on disk
You are affected if the Parasoft Environment Manager plugin version is 2.14 or earlier AND any job config.xml files contain Parasoft EM configuration with plaintext passwords instead of encrypted credential references.
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 the Parasoft Environment Manager Plugin to version 2.15 or later which encrypts stored passwords. Also rotate any credentials that may have been exposed and reconfigure them using Jenkins' secure credential storage mechanisms.
Fix this in Parasoft Environment Manager
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation3.0 h
- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 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-2020-2132 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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