HCL BigFix Service Management (SM) Discovery is vulnerable to unenforced encryption

published 2026-04-21 6 mo ago modified 2026-10-07 33 d ago also EUVD-2025-209542

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 0%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 6 mo ago (2026-04-21)

Exploit prediction

0.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

HCLSoftware BigFix Service Management (SM)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

support.hcl-software.com /csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0127605
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-31981
NVD CVE-2025-31981

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Summary