Ibm Cloud DevopsApplication · Jenkins
CVE-2025-53663
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 IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin 2.0.16 and earlier stores SonarQube authentication tokens unencrypted in job config.xml files on the Jenkins controller, where they can be viewed by users with Item/Extended Read permission or access to the Jenkins controller 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 IBM Cloud DevOps Plugin version 2.0.16 and earlier stores SonarQube authentication tokens in plaintext within job config.xml files. These configuration files are accessible to users with Item/Extended Read permission or anyone with filesystem access to the Jenkins controller, enabling credential exposure.
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
Ibm Cloud DevopsApplication
<= 2.0.16CVSS 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 IBM Cloud DevOps plugin versionGo to Manage Jenkins > System > IBM Cloud DevOps or check the installed plugins list to confirm the plugin version. Compare against 2.0.16 or earlier.Affected if The plugin version is 2.0.16 or lower.
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Identify jobs with SonarQube configurationSearch Jenkins jobs that use the IBM Cloud DevOps plugin and have SonarQube analysis configured. Look for jobs with 'sonarqube' or 'SonarQube' in their configuration.Affected if Any job configured with SonarQube integration exists.
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Inspect job config.xml files for plaintext tokensNavigate to $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/[job-name]/config.xml for each relevant job. Open the file and search for 'sonarqube', 'token', or 'password' fields. Look for visible plaintext authentication tokens in the XML.Affected if Plaintext SonarQube tokens are present in any config.xml file.
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Check user permissions on job configsReview which users or groups have Item/Extended Read permission across Jenkins jobs. Extended Read allows viewing job configurations including sensitive fields.Affected if Users beyond administrators have Item/Extended Read permission on jobs containing SonarQube configurations.
The environment is affected if the IBM Cloud DevOps plugin version is 2.0.16 or earlier, any jobs contain SonarQube configuration stored in config.xml, and those configurations are accessible to users with Item/Extended Read permission or via filesystem access.
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 dataLimit Jenkins Item/Extended Read permissions to only necessary users, rotate any SonarQube tokens that may have been exposed in job configs, and restrict filesystem access to the Jenkins controller. Monitor for unauthorized access to config.xml files.
Fix this in Ibm Cloud Devops
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing2.0 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.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-53663 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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