HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) is vulnerable to insufficiently protected credentials

published 2026-05-06 6mo ago modified 2026-10-07 last mo. also EUVD-2025-209693

cvss: 4.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits: 0; none known

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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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 6mo ago (2026-05-06)

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

HCL Software BigFix Service Management (SM)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

support.hcl-software.com /csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0128144
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-31976
NVD CVE-2025-31976

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