CVE-2025-31981 (GCVE-0-2025-31981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-21 14:26 – Updated: 2026-04-21 19:28
VLAI?
Title
HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) Discovery is vulnerable to unenforced encryption
Summary
HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) Discovery is vulnerable to unenforced encryption due to port 80 (HTTP) being open, allowing unencrypted access.  An attacker with access to the network traffic can sniff packets from the connection and uncover the data.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-319 - Cleartext transmission of sensitive information
Assigner
HCL
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HCLSoftware BigFix Service Management (SM) Affected: 23
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Date Public ?
2026-04-20 13:55
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