CVE-2013-5676

Exp

The Jenkins Plugin for SonarQube 3.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information (cleartext passwords) by reading the value in the sonar.sonarPassword parameter from jenkins/configure.

Published: 2013-12-13 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-5676 is rated High Exploit Risk (62/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.31%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-5676

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
30409 exploit_db edb 2013-12-18 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-5676

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-07-29 5.69% 5.31% -0.38%
2 2025-03-30 8.09% 5.69% -2.40%
3 2025-03-29 8.09%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-5676

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-5676

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2013-5676

GHSA-3x9h-3p7m-33m7 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Jenkins SonarQube Plugin Stores Passwords in Cleartext

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-5676

vendor priority summary link
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5676

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-5676

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sonarsource jenkins_plugin cpe:2.3:a:sonarsource:jenkins_plugin:-:-:-:*:-:sonarqube:*:*

References for CVE-2013-5676

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