CVE-2025-31972 (GCVE-0-2025-31972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-28 16:50 – Updated: 2025-08-28 17:14
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Summary
HCL BigFix SM is affected by a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability where internal connections do not use TLS encryption which could allow an attacker unauthorized access to sensitive data transmitted between internal components.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Assigner
HCL
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HCL Software BigFix Service Management (SM) Affected: 23 (Framework)
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