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🛡️ CVE-2024-42213 — bigfix-compliance

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-531 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

HCL BigFix Compliance is affected by inclusion of temporary files left in the production environment. An attacker might gain access to these files by indexing or retrieved via predictable URLs or misconfigured permissions, leading to information disclosure.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-42213 is classified as CWE-531: Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Test Code. Accessible test applications can pose a variety of security risks. Since developers or administrators rarely consider that someone besides themselves would even know about the existence of these applications, it is common for them to contain…

Affected software

CVE-2024-42213 is recorded against 1 package.

  • bigfix-compliance

Timeline and source

Published on 5 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

support.hcl-software.com

Other advisories for this package

bigfix-compliance has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-531: Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Test Code) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-531
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bigfix-compliance — —

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