CVE-2025-55278 (GCVE-0-2025-55278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-05 22:44 – Updated: 2025-11-06 21:20
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Title
HCL DevOps Loop is susceptible to an improper authentication vulnerability
Summary
Improper authentication in the API authentication middleware of HCL DevOps Loop allows authentication tokens to be accepted without proper validation of their expiration and cryptographic signature. As a result, an attacker could potentially use expired or tampered tokens to gain unauthorized access to sensitive resources and perform actions with elevated privileges.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
HCL
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HCL Software DevOps Loop Affected: 1.0.2
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