CVE-2025-31976

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Insufficiently Protected Credentials in HCL BigFix Service Management

Publication date: 2026-05-06

Last updated on: 2026-06-29

Assigner: HCL Software

Description

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. .

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Published

2026-05-06

Last Modified

2026-06-29

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2026-05-06

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-31976

EUVD

EUVD-2025-209693

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
hcltech	bigfix_service_management	23.0

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-200	The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
CWE-522	The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

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Impact Analysis

If an attacker successfully exploits this vulnerability, they could obtain and misuse credentials that are temporarily exposed during communication. This could lead to unauthorized access or actions within the affected system, potentially compromising confidentiality and integrity.

Compliance Impact

The vulnerability involves insufficiently protected credentials during communication with a backend internal application, which could allow an attacker to misuse them if exfiltrated.

Such exposure of credentials could potentially lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data, thereby impacting compliance with data protection standards and regulations like GDPR and HIPAA that require safeguarding of sensitive information.

However, the provided information does not explicitly state the direct impact on compliance with these standards.

Executive Summary

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) has a vulnerability where credentials are insufficiently protected for a short duration during communication with a backend internal application. This weakness could allow an attacker to potentially misuse these credentials if they manage to exfiltrate them.

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