FKIE_CVE-2025-31981

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-21 15:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:11
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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.
References
psirt@hcl.comhttps://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0127605Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
hcltech bigfix_service_management 23.0
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