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🛡️ CVE-2025-31978 — bigfix-service-management

🟡 CVSS 4.6 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-201 NVD
4.6
CVSS Score
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Description

HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) does not adequately sanitize or safely render spreadsheet files (CSV, XLS, XLSX) before processing or distributing them. An attacker could populate data fields which, when saved to a CSV file, may attempt information exfiltration or other malicious activity when automatically executed by the spreadsheet software. Note that current versions of Excel warn users of untrusted content.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/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: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-31978 is classified as CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data. The code transmits data to another actor, but a portion of the data includes sensitive information that should not be accessible to that actor.

Affected software

CVE-2025-31978 is recorded against 1 package.

  • bigfix-service-management

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2026 and last revised on 29 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

support.hcl-software.com

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bigfix-service-management 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-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-201
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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