GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-522 vulnerability in io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-api. A fix is available for io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-api — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Jenkins Pipeline SCM API for Blue Ocean Plugin
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-apiReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Maven packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
When pipelines are created using the pipeline creation wizard in Blue Ocean, the credentials used are stored in the per-user credentials store of the user creating the pipeline. To allow pipelines to use this credential to scan repositories and checkout from SCM, the Blue Ocean Credentials Provider allows pipelines to access a specific credential from the per-user credentials store in Pipeline SCM API for Blue Ocean Plugin 1.25.3 and earlier.
As a result, attackers with Job/Configure permission can rewrite job configurations in a way that lets them access and capture any attacker-specified credential from any user’s private credentials store.
Pipeline SCM API for Blue Ocean Plugin 1.25.4 deprecates the Blue Ocean Credentials Provider and disables it by default. As a result, all jobs initially set up using the Blue Ocean pipeline creation wizard and configured to use the credential specified at that time will no longer be able to access the credential, resulting in failures to scan repositories, checkout from SCM, etc. unless the repository is public and can be accessed without credentials.
This also applies to newly created pipelines after Pipeline SCM API for Blue Ocean Plugin has been updated to 1.25.4.
Administrators should reconfigure affected pipelines to use a credential from the Jenkins credential store or a folder credential store. See this help page on cloudbees.com to learn more.
To re-enable the Blue Ocean Credentials Provider, set the Java system property io.jenkins.blueocean.rest.impl.pipeline.credential.BlueOceanCredentialsProvider.enabled to true. Doing so is discouraged, as that will restore the unsafe behavior.
While Credentials Plugin provides the Configure Credential Providers UI to enable or disable certain credentials providers, enabling the Blue Ocean Credentials Provider there is not enough in Pipeline SCM API for Blue Ocean Plugin 1.25.4. Both the UI and system property need to enable the Blue Ocean Credentials Provider.
Administrators not immediately able to update Blue Ocean are advised to disable the Blue Ocean Credentials Provider through the UI at Manage Jenkins » Configure Credential Providers and to reconfigure affected pipelines to use a credential from the Jenkins credential store or a folder credential store.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-api | all versions | 1.25.4io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-api:1.25.4 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-api, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update io.jenkins.blueocean:blueocean-pipeline-scm-api to 1.25.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| OCP-Tools-4.12-RHEL-8 | jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.12.1675702407-1.el8 | RHSA-2023:1064 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 | jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.10.1675144701-1.el8 | RHSA-2023:0560 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 | jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.8.1672842762-1.el8 | RHSA-2023:0017 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 | jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.9.1675668922-1.el8 | RHSA-2023:0777 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-g74w-93cp-5p3p across Maven dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.