CVE-2025-31976

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) is vulnerable to insufficiently protected credentials for a short duration while communicating with a backend, internal application which could allow an attacker to potentially misuse them, if exfiltrated. .

CVSS v3 4.8 MEDIUM

4.8^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.2 / Impact : 2.5

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0128144	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:hcltech:bigfix_service_management:23.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-06 15:16

Updated : 2026-06-29 14:59

NVD link : CVE-2025-31976

Mitre link : CVE-2025-31976

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-31976

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Products Affected

hcltech

bigfix_service_management

CWE

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CWE-522

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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